A curated register of quotes from under-represented voices.

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

— Hedy Lamarr

“ 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

“ In nature nothing exists alone. ”

— Rachel Carson, 1962

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

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

— 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

“ 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

“ The world needs all kinds of minds. ”

— Temple Grandin, 2010

“ 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

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

— Marie Curie

“ At first we were fighting people to even say Black lives matter. Now everybody's saying Black lives matter. The question now is, well, what do you mean? ”

— Alicia Garza

“ One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world. ”

— Malala Yousafzai, 2013

“ Abolition is really about rethinking the kind of future we want, the social future, the economic future, the political future. It's about revolution, I would argue. ”

— Angela Davis, 2020

“ I'm not OK with someone writing the Asian experience for an Asian character. ”

— Awkwafina, 2019

“ When I leave this world, I don't want to be remembered as just being good at tennis. I want to be remembered as a good person and a good advocate. ”

— Coco Gauff, 2022

“ Bringing our true self is possible only when there is no fear of retribution or ridicule, and in fact appreciation and celebration of what makes each of us unique. ”

— Roma Bindroo