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““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 the world, designing a video game—will make us complete pariahs.””

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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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“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…

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“Suddenly I came out of my thoughts to notice everything around me again-the catkins on the willows, the lapping of the water, the leafy…

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“The letters she writes me, take me to a magical world she created, while we visualize every word written. She watches it along with…

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People make a star out of actors after one or two films and keep capitalising on the same thing without having the courage of…

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“I'm more interested in arousing enthusiasm in kids than in teaching the facts. The facts may change, but that enthusiasm for exploring the world…

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I understand why society, especially American society, is gravitating toward fairy tales, given our economy. We've been exploring the world of witches and wizards…

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“I argued that exploring the world with our hands, testing out ideas by building them, role playing, and countless other activities are all natural…

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