A curated register of quotes from under-represented voices.

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

— 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

“ 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

“ The world needs all kinds of minds. ”

— Temple Grandin, 2010

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

— Marie Curie

“ 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

“ 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

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

— Jane Goodall

“ 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

“ In nature nothing exists alone. ”

— Rachel Carson, 1962

“ 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 shall dance all my life. ”

— Josephine Baker

“ I am Puerto Rican, I am Caribbean, and my music, my culture, my country's history run through my veins, from plena to reggaeton. ”

— Bad Bunny

“ I raise up my voice, not so that I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard. ”

— Malala Yousafzai, 2013

“ Why not me? ”

— Mindy Kaling, 2015

“ If you say nothing, nothing will change. ”

— Sue Owen-Bailey

“ A champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall. ”

— Serena Williams