Sam Maggs > Quotes

“Dream Your World. Be Your World. Flaunt Your World.”
― Sam Maggs, The Fangirl's Guide to the Galaxy: A Handbook for Girl Geeks

“Being a fangirl is the best thing that's ever happened to me. ...We know what we're into, we love hard, and we're okay with it.”
― Sam Maggs, The Fangirl's Guide to the Galaxy: A Handbook for Girl Geeks

“We know what we’re into, we love hard, and we’re okay with it. But we don’t have it easy.”
― Sam Maggs, The Fangirl's Guide to the Galaxy: A Handbook for Girl Geeks

“Book clubs are totally dope - like English class if you were allowed to read only books that you actually like and snack and sip while discussing them.”
― Sam Maggs, The Fangirl's Guide to the Galaxy: A Handbook for Girl Geeks

“fiction, no matter the form, allows you to live a thousand meaningful experiences and relationships that you could never have in real life. Getting invested in a fictional world means you have a wonderful imagination, a big heart, and the capacity for endless creativity. No one can say anything bad about that.”
― Sam Maggs, The Fangirl's Guide to the Galaxy: A Handbook for Girl Geeks

“Whatever you want to do—start now. No one needs to give you permission. No one needs to invite you to the table. Just”
― Sam Maggs, The Fangirl's Guide to the Galaxy: A Handbook for Girl Geeks

“Do you want every human everywhere—regardless of gender, race, class, sexuality, or fandom—to have the same rights? Then congrats: you are a feminist. Huzzah!”
― Sam Maggs, The Fangirl's Guide to the Galaxy: A Handbook for Girl Geeks

“You’re not a true fan if you only like the Marvel movies; you can’t be in the anime community unless you speak fluent Japanese; you’re not allowed to dress up as Ms. Marvel unless you’ve read every Ms. Marvel comic, ever.”
― Sam Maggs, The Fangirl's Guide to the Galaxy: A Handbook for Girl Geeks

“Anyone who shows up for a midnight opening-night screening of the latest, shiniest geek flick must be a diehard nerd. I mean, you'd have to be a killer-huge fan to wait in line for hours for the newest Star Wars or Marvel Universe film, right?”
― Sam Maggs, The Fangirl's Guide to the Galaxy: A Handbook for Girl Geeks

“Ruth Bader Ginsburg “People ask me sometimes, ‘When will there be enough women on the court?’ and my answer is, ‘When there are nine.’ ”
― Sam Maggs, Girl Squads

“Women are becoming the driving force behind geek culture, and we shouldn’t be relegated to the sidelines.”
― Sam Maggs, The Fangirl's Guide to the Galaxy: A Handbook for Girl Geeks

“And although many of us have caring, sympathetic men in our lives, there are some things—no matter how many times we explain them—that they’ll never fully understand.”
― Sam Maggs, Girl Squads: 20 Female Friendships That Changed History

“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

“Dismissing women as “strident,” “harsh,” “bossy,” whatever, is one of the oldest tricks in the “Get Women To Shut Up” book.”
― Sam Maggs, Girl Squads: 20 Female Friendships That 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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Someone should have been writing sonnets to your rib cage.”
― Sam Maggs, Star Wars Jedi: Battle Scars

“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

“... wanting the crew to know he was okay but still wanting them to feel just, like, real bad about it also, at the same time.”
― Sam Maggs, Star Wars Jedi: Battle Scars

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Very few times had Cal ever seen stormtroopers have good aim, and even then it was when they were accidentally aiming at each other.”
― Sam Maggs, Jedi: Battle Scars