Quotes by : Margot Lee Shetterly

But years and miles away from home could never attenuate the city's hold on my identity, and the more....

As fantastical as America’s space ambitions might have seemed, sending a man into space was starting....

Katherine gave in to the wonder of the moment, imagining herself in the astronauts' place. What emotions....

What I wanted was for them to have a grand, sweeping narrative that they deserved, the kind of American....

You can't change history. These things happened the way they did. What you can change is how you look....

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

Expertise in a subfield was the key to a successful career as an engineer, and expertise was becoming....

Our next-door neighbour taught physics at Hampton University. Our church abounded with mathematicians.....

There was virtually no aspect of twentieth-century defense technology that had not been touched by the....

They turned their desks into a trigonometric war room, poring over equations scrawling ideas on blackboards,....