Quotes

  • Live for Yourself: Insights from Nelson Mandela

    ‘People can talk, people can do whatever they want to do, but it’s up to you to live for yourself first before others.‘― Nelson Mandela

  • Crumbs

    ‘Everyone thinks women should be thrilled when we get crumbs, and I want women to have the cake, the icing, and the cherry on top, too.‘― Billie Jean King

  • The Ethical Imperative of Vaccinating Children

    ‘Denying children lifesaving vaccinations violates the most fundamental principles of morality, disregards the core tenets of human decency, and breaks the contract of ethical responsibility between generations.’― Dr. Claire Pomeroy

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  • Equal freedom rights

    ‘I do not believe that being First Lady should prevent me from expressing my ideas. Why should my husband’s job or yours prevent us from being ourselves? Being lady like does not require silence.‘― Betty Ford

  • The importance of role models

    ‘I never went into physics or the astronaut corps to become a role model. But after my first flight, it became clear to me that I was one. And I began to understand the importance of that to people. Young girls need to see role models in whatever careers they may choose, just so they…

  • Life

    ‘Norhinf in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.‘― Marie Curie

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  • Law of nature

    ‘If you do something once, people will call it an accident. If you do it twice, they call it a coincidence. But do it a third time and you’ve just proven a natural law.‘― Grace Hopper

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  • Rebellion

    ‘We were told that we couldn’t do math because we were women. I liked doing what I wasn’t supposed to do, it was a sort of legitimate rebellion.‘― Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck

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  • True understanding

    ‘I never am really satisfied that I understand anything, because, understand it well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand about the many connections and relations which occur to me.‘― Ada Lovelace

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  • Exploring the Mysteries of the Universe

    ‘We have peered into a new world, and have seen that it is more mysterious and more complex than we had imagined. Still more mysteries of the universe remain hidden. Their discovery awaits the adventurous scientists of the future. I like it this way.‘― Vera Rubin