Quote by Margot Lee Shetterly Download Open image ““Surely she had never traveled a greater emotional distance”” — Margot Lee Shetterly ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“she talked her whole life of seeing the world, but she never traveled further than the conversation.” — Cari Kamm Copy Share Image
“Every emotion that she’d felt during the journey paled against the fear. It was now as much a part of her as any of… — Angela Marsons Copy Share Image
“Her life was a scattering of small moments, bits of meaningful conversations, and bright dashes of beauty where least expected.” — Robin Jones Gunn Copy Share Image
“For all the things that had happened to her, all the people she had met, the miles of ocean she had covered, she could… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
“Since the beginning of the year, she was on a train wreck of emotions crashing through every town of bad anxiety a person could… — Aneta Krpekyan Copy Share Image
“It had always been the two of them through everything -every adventure and every expedition- and now there was this awful distance between them,… — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
“I somehow knew that the particulars didn't matter. She was my heart, she was half of me, and nothing, certainly not a few measly… — Morgan Matson Copy Share Image
“As she wove in and out of all the people - rushing, talking, eating, laughing; some in clumps, some alone - she realized that… — Kevin Henkes Copy Share Image
“...she still stopped when her mind moved towards real fear or dread or, worse, towards the thought that she was going to lose this… — Colm Tóibín Copy Share Image
“she had traveled to America only to be reminded of how powerless she was,” — Imbolo Mbue Copy Share Image
“There was, too, a reality to her new life that her old life had lacked, and she realized with a shock that she had… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
“She was always going to be the smartest, kindest, funniest, loyalest person we would ever meet, and the fact of her not being here… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“...internalized the Negro theorem of needing to be twice as good to get half as far.” — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
“black people frequently disqualified themselves even without the WHITES ONLY sign in view” — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
“At the beginning of a decade when everything was beginning to seem possible, nothing seemed impossible.” — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
Every time you go to an airport and get on a plane, you are basically taking advantage of the work that was done at… — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
“It was the engineer who determined what problems to investigate, designed the experiments, and defined the assignments for the mathematicians.” — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
“Like craftsmen in a medieval guild, NASA engineers hoped that one day their children would decide to take up the mantle of the profession… — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
For too long, history has imposed a binary condition on its black citizens: either nameless or renowned, menial or exceptional, passive recipients of the… — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
The success of 'Hidden Figures' proves that people are interested in, hungry for, stories about transcendent human experiences. — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
“Early in her career at Langley, Dorthy Lee was interviewed for the Daily Press, in all probability by Virginia Biggins, the female reporter assigned… — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
“Get the girl to check the numbers,' said the astronaut. If she says the numbers are good, he told them, I'm ready to go.” — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
