“It’s time to shake off the bogus fear that pursuing any interest that falls outside the traditionally “feminine”—say, working in a STEM field, exploring… — Sam Maggs Copy Share
“The CIA might be a good ol’ boy network, but in my opinion HUMINT (human intelligence) is largely a woman’s world.” — Sam Maggs Copy Share
“Highly educated and openly bisexual, Elvira had twice the brains of everyone around her and was consistently bored with a life that didn’t offer… — Sam Maggs Copy Share
“First, though, we have to get the stories of these women out into the world. Because representation matters. And we ladies need real inspiration… — Sam Maggs Copy Share
“f you love science and equality but hate leprosy (and who doesn’t?), Alice Ball is 100 percent your kind of gal.” — Sam Maggs Copy Share
“Using their unique skill sets (photographic memories, encrypting, forging, pretending to enjoy being in public with a bunch of people when they’d really rather… — Sam Maggs Copy Share
“A seventh-century Coptic bishop would later describe her as “devoted at all times to magic, astrolabes and instruments of music” who “beguiled many people… — Sam Maggs Copy Share
“When many others blamed the eclipse phenomenon on supernatural events, Zhenyi wrote back, “Actually, it’s definitely because of the moon.” (Direct quote!) All” — Sam Maggs Copy Share
“In this kind of social climate, it’s easy to grow up thinking that women don’t get involved in tech or science or medicine or… — Sam Maggs Copy Share
“Ada (whom Babbage adorably called the “Enchantress of Numbers” and “Lady Fairy”)” — Sam Maggs Copy Share
“After being approached at his mother’s funeral by a man who told him that Mary had “single-handedly saved America’s space program…and nobody knows it… — Sam Maggs Copy Share
“Ada’s mother, Anne, was a mathematician in her own right, and despite Lord Byron praising Anne as the “Princess of Parallelograms,” the two had… — Sam Maggs Copy Share
“When in 1944 the Nazis failed to meet her as agreed in Madrid (a meeting at which she might have been interrogated about the… — Sam Maggs Copy Share
“Zhenyi knew she was awesome, too. In one of her well-regarded poems, she writes that her ambition was “to a kind even stronger than… — Sam Maggs Copy Share
