A curated register of quotes from under-represented voices.

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

— Jane Goodall

“ The world needs all kinds of minds. ”

— Temple Grandin, 2010

“ 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

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

— Ellen Ochoa

“ 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

“ 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

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

— Hedy Lamarr

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

— Ada Lovelace

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

— Mae Jemison

“ In nature nothing exists alone. ”

— Rachel Carson, 1962

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

— Ellen Ochoa

“ 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

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

— Ada Lovelace, 1843

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

— Marie Curie

“ If you say nothing, nothing will change. ”

— Sue Owen-Bailey

“ I'd rather regret the risks that didn't work out than the chances I didn't take. ”

— Simone Biles

“ The only thing that separates women of colour from anyone else is opportunity. ”

— Viola Davis, 2015

“ You don't have to change the whole world, but by changing your thinking, you can change your actions, and then by changing your actions, you can change your community. ”

— Marley Dias

“ One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. ”

— Simone de Beauvoir, 1949

“ We have to protect our body and our mind. It just sucks when you're fighting with your own head. ”

— Simone Biles, 2021