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....

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

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....

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....

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

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....