Sam Maggs

“Representation is important. Media”

— Sam Maggs

“It’s time to shake off the bogus fear that pursuing any interest that falls outside the traditionally “feminine”—say, working in a STEM…

— Sam Maggs

“The CIA might be a good ol’ boy network, but in my opinion HUMINT (human intelligence) is largely a woman’s world.”

— Sam Maggs

“Highly educated and openly bisexual, Elvira had twice the brains of everyone around her and was consistently bored with a life that…

— Sam Maggs

“First, though, we have to get the stories of these women out into the world. Because representation matters. And we ladies need…

— Sam Maggs

“f you love science and equality but hate leprosy (and who doesn’t?), Alice Ball is 100 percent your kind of gal.”

— Sam Maggs

“Using their unique skill sets (photographic memories, encrypting, forging, pretending to enjoy being in public with a bunch of people when they’d…

— Sam Maggs

“A seventh-century Coptic bishop would later describe her as “devoted at all times to magic, astrolabes and instruments of music” who “beguiled…

— Sam Maggs

“When many others blamed the eclipse phenomenon on supernatural events, Zhenyi wrote back, “Actually, it’s definitely because of the moon.” (Direct quote!)…

— Sam Maggs

“In this kind of social climate, it’s easy to grow up thinking that women don’t get involved in tech or science or…

— Sam Maggs

“Ada (whom Babbage adorably called the “Enchantress of Numbers” and “Lady Fairy”)”

— Sam Maggs

“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…

— Sam Maggs

“Ada’s mother, Anne, was a mathematician in her own right, and despite Lord Byron praising Anne as the “Princess of Parallelograms,” the…

— Sam Maggs

“When in 1944 the Nazis failed to meet her as agreed in Madrid (a meeting at which she might have been interrogated…

— Sam Maggs

“Zhenyi knew she was awesome, too. In one of her well-regarded poems, she writes that her ambition was “to a kind even…

— Sam Maggs

“magine if Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, had been a hard-core birth control advocate and proud lesbian who didn’t hesitate to beat up…

— Sam Maggs

“November 2014, focus on science communications full-time. I now work for a cancer charity, “translating” science into English for fundraising teams. My…

— Sam Maggs