Wonder Women Quotes

“It’s time to shake off the bogus fear that pursuing any interest that falls outside the traditionally “feminine”—say, working in a STEM field, exploring the world, designing a video game—will make us complete pariahs.”
― Sam Maggs, Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History

“History is full of lady engineers and spies and scientists. But history is also written by the victorious, and it may not surprise you that thus far the overwhelming winners have been straight white dudes. That hasn't worked out so well for everyone else.”
― Sam Maggs, Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History

“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”
― Sam Maggs, Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History

“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

“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”
― Sam Maggs, Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History

“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.”
― Sam Maggs, Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History

“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.”
― Sam Maggs, Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History

“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.”
― Sam Maggs, Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History

“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.”
― Sam Maggs, Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History

“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”
― Sam Maggs, Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History

“f you love science and equality but hate leprosy (and who doesn’t?), Alice Ball is 100 percent your kind of gal.”
― Sam Maggs, Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History

“Ada’s mother, Anne, was a mathematician in her own right, and despite Lord Byron praising Anne as the “Princess of Parallelograms,” the two had a tumultuous relationship and young Ada never really met her father. Now”
― Sam Maggs, Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History

“When many others blamed the eclipse phenomenon on supernatural events, Zhenyi wrote back, “Actually, it’s definitely because of the moon.” (Direct quote!) All”
― Sam Maggs, Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History

“Zhenyi knew she was awesome, too. In one of her well-regarded poems, she writes that her ambition was “to a kind even stronger than a man’s” and that she was often “reluctant to ride a horse with make-up” (totally understandable since eyeliner back then was probably not smudge-proof). After”
― Sam Maggs, Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History

“First, though, we have to get the stories of these women out into the world. Because representation matters. And we ladies need real inspiration for the next time we find ourselves doubting our ability to invent something, the next time we fear learning how to code, the next time we feel like we just don’t belong. So”
― Sam Maggs, Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History

“Although 47 percent of gamers are female, women make up only 12 percent of the games industry.”
― Sam Maggs, Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History

“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.”
― Sam Maggs, Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History

“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.”
― Sam Maggs, Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History

“I made up my mind to try; I tried and was successful.”
― Sam Maggs, Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History

“I am a journalist and ‘a new woman,’ if that term means that I believe I can do anything that any man can do.”
― Sam Maggs, Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History

“I had dangled over a precipice where the landing place was 5,000 feet below; but that was of no consequence”),”
― Sam Maggs, Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History

“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.”
― Sam Maggs, Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History

“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.”
― Sam Maggs, Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History

“patience is a very beneficial little herb,”
― Sam Maggs, Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History

“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.”
― Sam Maggs, Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History

“They were also pretty fearsome fighters: trained in lightning-fast combat with staves, canes, knives, spears, swords, even their bare hands, the girls used their smaller, more lithe frames to their advantage against large male opponents. Thus prepped, kunoichi could infiltrate the homes of high-ranking men as maids, geisha, or friends in ways that no other spy could. Black Widow, eat your heart out.”
― Sam Maggs, Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History

“I probably drew from [my mother’s] breast with my daily food my love of independence and hatred of male tyranny.”
― Sam Maggs, Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History

“(Times may change, but being rich is always a good way to stay in power.)”
― Sam Maggs, Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History

“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.”
― Sam Maggs, Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History

“Life need not be easy; what is important is that it not be empty. And this wish I have been granted.”
― Sam Maggs, Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History