“Names and knowledge change, the way the turningworld brings color or deep shadows, without a soundeven as soft as the twist of a key in a lock.”

“As Maria Mitchell pointed out in 1875, 'Science needs women'.”

“There's more in the earth than anyone knows. We'll find wonders.”

“Stars crown the world, she said, but the lights in your eyes, those are stars, too. They make up your crown, he said.”

“As Maria Mitchell pointed out in 1875, 'Science needs women'.”

“There's more in the earth than anyone knows. We'll find wonders.”

“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettie...”

“To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth. ”

“The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.”

“No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever written enough.”

“When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women”

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”