If one more man calls my lab work “helpful,” I’m putting his ego in a lead box. by Marie Curie

I respect it, honestly, but every time Marie says 'interesting' I feel like I am being graded.

That is because your wife treated experiments like a court case and your theories like cross-examination.

Good. Stay nervous, stay useful, and stop explaining my discoveries like they were borrowed utensils.

She says that like half the room did not learn radiations from her notebook and then act surprised.

I came here for physics and somehow found a group chat full of bruised egos.

Albert, you once looked shocked that a woman could outwork a room, so sit down.

Marie, please stop threatening the Nobel committee before breakfast.

To be fair, I married the only person in the world who could make me look underdressed and underqualified at the same time.