A curated register of quotes from under-represented voices.

“ 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

“ 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

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

— Ellen Ochoa

“ In nature nothing exists alone. ”

— Rachel Carson, 1962

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

— Mae Jemison

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

— Hedy Lamarr

“ 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

“ The world needs all kinds of minds. ”

— Temple Grandin, 2010

“ 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

“ 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

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

— Marie Curie

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

— Jane Goodall

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

— Ellen Ochoa

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

— Ada Lovelace

“ 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

“ There is nothing stronger than a broken woman who has rebuilt herself. ”

— Hannah Gadsby

“ A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. ”

— Virginia Woolf, 1929

“ 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

“ I am lucky. I bring the voice of someone who has survived against the odds. ”

— Dr J Harrison

“ There's absolutely nothing wrong with you. ”

— Elliot Page, 2023

“ Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. ”

— James Baldwin, 1962