Quotes by : Margot Lee Shetterly

Their dark skin, their gender, their economic status--none of those were acceptable excuses for not giving....

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

Of course, while Katherine took the accolades in stride, she never took the work for granted. Not a morning....

For twelve school years, every morning, she had turned left out the front door to get to work. Now the....

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....

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

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