For twelve school years, every morning, she had turned left out the front door to get to work. Now the taxi turned right, spiriting her off in the opposite direction.

Women, on the other hand, had to wield their intellects like a scythe, hacking away against the stubborn underbrush of low expectations.

They turned their desks into a trigonometric war room, poring over equations scrawling ideas on blackboards, evaluating their work, erasing it, starting over.

There was virtually no aspect of twentieth-century defense technology that had not been touched by the hands and minds of female mathematicians.

West Virgina never left Katherine's heart, but Virginia was her destiny.

Their dark skin, their gender, their economic status--none of those were acceptable excuses for not giving the fullest rein to their imaginations and ambitions.

Expertise in a subfield was the key to a successful career as an engineer, and expertise was becoming a necessity for the mathematicians and computers as well.

I’ve never quite understood why the knuckleheads of the planet so outnumber the rest of us.

You are here having realized the necessity of contending with yourself

I was beginning to think that Simon just had a bad case of OCD, ADD, and PMS. With a little BS and OMG mixed in.

Amongst all the colours in this multicoloured world, even jet black has its reserved place.

I'd like to be remembered as someone who was a champion of peace and human rights.

Chastity - you can carry it too far.

Those who are socially inclined will find a new power to help humanity through the lessons of books written by noble and gifted people.

To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.

My disinterest in your bullshit is so tangible you could make bricks out of it

Womens value has been under-recognized for far too long.