A curated register of quotes from under-represented voices.

“ Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. ”

— Marie Curie

“ In nature nothing exists alone. ”

— Rachel Carson, 1962

“ That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal; as time will show. ”

— Ada Lovelace

“ What's above us connects us. Every group of people around the world have looked up at the stars for thousands of generations. ”

— Mae Jemison

“ The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. ”

— Ada Lovelace, 1843

“ I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted. ”

— Alan Turing, 1950

“ Any girl can be glamorous. All she has to do is stand still and look stupid. ”

— Hedy Lamarr

“ What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make. ”

— Jane Goodall

“ I counted everything. I counted the steps to the road, the steps up to church, the number of dishes and silverware I washed, anything that could be counted, I did. ”

— Katherine Johnson

“ Don't be afraid to reach for the stars. I believe a good education can take you anywhere on Earth and beyond. ”

— Ellen Ochoa

“ Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations. ”

— Mae Jemison

“ Girls are capable of doing everything men are capable of doing. Sometimes they have more imagination than men. I don't have a feeling of inferiority. Never had. I'm as good as anybody, but no better. ”

— Katherine Johnson

“ A willingness to ask questions and to learn, that is what is important. ”

— Ellen Ochoa

“ I think it's very important to get more women into computing. My slogan is: Computing is too important to be left to men. ”

— Karen Spärck Jones

“ The world needs all kinds of minds. ”

— Temple Grandin, 2010

“ Let's let everybody know it's okay to have a mental illness, it's okay to have an addiction problem. ”

— Demi Lovato, 2018

“ I am not ashamed of my past and don't intend to be ashamed of it. ”

— Madam C.J. Walker

“ Without strong communities, there is no strong nation. ”

— Rigoberta Menchú

“ We are beginning to understand that the world is always being made fresh and never finished; that activism can be the journey rather than the arrival. ”

— Grace Lee Boggs

“ I never want to shy away from acknowledging who I am, being authentic as much as I can be. It's an important thing to be able to say, 'Yes, I'm out. I'm not ashamed of any part of who I am.' ”

— Sharice Davids, 2018

“ The money part also allows you freedom, freedom to speak out, freedom to make bold choices, freedom to maybe go against your federation. ”

— Megan Rapinoe, 2022