A curated register of quotes from under-represented voices.

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

— Ellen Ochoa

“ 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

“ 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 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

“ 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

“ 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

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

— Jane Goodall

“ In nature nothing exists alone. ”

— Rachel Carson, 1962

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

— Ada Lovelace

“ 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

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

— Ellen Ochoa

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

— Hedy Lamarr

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

— Mae Jemison

“ The world needs all kinds of minds. ”

— Temple Grandin, 2010

“ When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful. ”

— Malala Yousafzai

“ Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books. ”

— bell hooks, 1994

“ For me it [Pride] means that we can't take our accomplishments for granted. ”

— Susana Santos

“ Voting rights for me are the point of entry to democracy. ”

— Stacey Abrams, 2021

“ The man or the woman in whom resides greater virtue is the higher; neither the loftiness nor the lowliness of a person lies in the body according to the sex, but in the perfection of conduct and virtues. ”

— Christine de Pizan, 1405

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

— Viola Davis, 2015