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21 " The CIA might be a good ol’ boy network, but in my opinion HUMINT (human intelligence) is largely a woman’s world. "
― Sam Maggs , Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History
22 " f you love science and equality but hate leprosy (and who doesn’t?), Alice Ball is 100 percent your kind of gal. "
23 " 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 through [her] Satanic wiles,” which sounds like a compliment to me. SOPHIA "
24 " 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 but a handful of old men,” George began digging into her past—and what he found was astonishing "
25 " magine if Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, had been a hard-core birth control advocate and proud lesbian who didn’t hesitate to beat up anyone who tried to wrong her. "
26 " If you’re just getting into the comics, start with Runaways, a series about teenagers who discover their parents are supervillains. "
― Sam Maggs , The Fangirl's Guide to the Galaxy: A Handbook for Girl Geeks
27 " November 2014, focus on science communications full-time. I now work for a cancer charity, “translating” science into English for fundraising teams. My writing reaches so many people and helps raise money toward cancer research, and it feels very meaningful to me because of that. "
28 " 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 be anywhere else) these incredible women shook things up like old-school femmes Nikitas. "
29 " 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 her much opportunity to use them. "
30 " When in 1944 the Nazis failed to meet her as agreed in Madrid (a meeting at which she might have been interrogated about the whole Bay of Biscay incident), she wrote them the angriest, most spoiled entitled-girl letter that has likely ever been penned: “Absolutely livid about the uselessness of the journey which was expensive and disagreeable. You let me down.” To the Nazis! Who then apologized and asked very nicely to keep working with her! What a queen. After "
31 " TYPICAL TROLOLOL: “Sure, but even Virginia Woolf said in A Room of One’s Own that ‘a woman must have money,’ so obviously all girls are just out for cash. "
32 " Noether’s theorem (which we do not have the page space to write out in its entirety, trust us) basically explains that energy can neither be created nor destroyed. "
33 " patience is a very beneficial little herb, "
34 " Be curious. The heart of science is to investigate the world around you as methodically as possible, slowly unraveling fragments of the secrets that make up our universe. Find ways to increment our knowledge that tiny bit further. "
35 " there’s no doubt that specimens from her Transformations of the Insects of Suriname have since gone extinct. Her paintings are so precise that today 73 percent of the creatures depicted can be identified to their genus and 66 percent to their exact species. "
36 " Own up to your mistakes. Do your best to correct them and to learn from them. Then don’t stress about it too much—it happens to everyone. Go on adventures, whatever they look like to you. But most important, have fun. "
37 " Although 47 percent of gamers are female, women make up only 12 percent of the games industry. "
38 " Ada (whom Babbage adorably called the “Enchantress of Numbers” and “Lady Fairy”) "
39 " A woman who has done good work in the scholastic world doesn’t like to be called a good woman scholar. Call her a good scholar and let it go at that….I have climbed 1,500 feet higher than any man in the United States. Don’t call me a woman mountain climber. "
40 " She let her achievements speak for her. She didn’t fight a public battle about whether women could or should do the work—she just did the work. "