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““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 a tumultuous relationship and young Ada never really met her father. Now””

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

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“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…

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

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

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“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…

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“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…

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

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“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…

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

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“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…

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