Dale Debakcsy > Quotes

“Science and poetry and history and languages were all taken very seriously by the Quaker community, and if somebody excelled, regardless of their gender, they were celebrated.”
― Dale Debakcsy, A History of Women in Astronomy and Space Exploration: Exploring the Trailblazers of STEM

“By turns a medical doctor, engineer, Third World nation healthcare worker, space explorer, political activist, media personality, writer and dancer, Jemison shows that the drive to know more about the universe does not need to come from a cold place of calculating conquest; it can be the ultimate expression of artistic, intellectual and humanitarian drives all pulling together towards a more equitable future.”
― Dale Debakcsy, A History of Women in Astronomy and Space Exploration: Exploring the Trailblazers of STEM

“Alice Cook and Fiammetta Wilson’s names will perhaps always be linked in the annals of astronomy.”
― Dale Debakcsy, A History of Women in Astronomy and Space Exploration: Exploring the Trailblazers of STEM

“As a child, Jemison possessed a voracious desire to not only know about the world, but to do things in it.”
― Dale Debakcsy, A History of Women in Astronomy and Space Exploration: Exploring the Trailblazers of STEM

“Her responsibilities included not only those symbolic and administrative functions one would expect of a religious figurehead, but also overseeing and expansion of the astronomical structures of the empire’s observatory network.”
― Dale Debakcsy, A History of Women in Astronomy and Space Exploration: Exploring the Trailblazers of STEM