Stem Girls Quotes

“Science Technology Engineering and Math is still necessary to know if you dream of being a filmmaker. Filmmaking is an art form, but with the use of STEM. - Kailin Gow.”
― Kailin Gow

“There is nothing innate, immutable or inevitable about boys or girls doing particularly well or badly in different subjects. Girls in Shanghai outperform western boys in math, the same boys that outshine the girls in the US. The variable factor is the educational system, the society and the parents.”
― Jamie Le Fay, Beginnings

“Jim, they make these things not to be fiddled with. The civilian version of this device fuses itself into a solid lump of silicon if it thinks it's being tampered with. Who knows what the military version of the fail-safe is? Drop the magnetic bottle in the reactor? Turn us into a supernova?”
― James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes

“You see this scrawny, stunted, unmuscled body? It’s built to live in parasitic symbiosis with a couch. It resists training with the force of many million ohms.”
― Ali Hazelwood

“You know who traditionally does poorly on standardized tests? Women and marginalized individuals. It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy: groups that are constantly told by society that they’re less smart walk into a testing situation anxious as hell and end up underperforming. It’s called Stereotype Threat, and there’s tons of literature on that. Just like there’s tons of literature showing that the GRE does a terrible job at predicting who’ll finish grad school. But the heads of graduate admission all over the country don’t care and persist in using an instrument made to elevate rich white men.” She shakes out her hair. “Burn it down, I say.”
― Ali Hazelwood

“HONOR ROLL Like a GIRL.”
― Stephanie Lahart

“Accept it… Black women and Black girls in STEM rock on a phenomenal level!”
― Stephanie Lahart

“He is just a boy, standing in front of a girl, asking her to do twice as much work as he ever did in order to prove that she’s worthy of becoming a scientist.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Love on the Brain

“Yeah, young coders abound, but mostly only string together preassembled digital beads, and even today's brightest young nerdlets aren't immune to eventual wrinkles. As for real experts, well, as the dawn of the computer age recedes, so too have the hairlines of your true computer wizards, the males I mean. We females never change, we are eternally young.”
― Rajnar Vajra, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Volume 133, Issue 1 & 2, January-February 2013

“It was common for my father to sit my sisters down and tell them things like, "I saw a girl working in the bank in town, and she was a girl just like you." My parents had never completed primary school. They couldn't speak English or even read that well. My parents only knew the language of numbers, buying and selling, but they wanted more for their kids. That's why my father had scraped the money together and kept Annie in school, despite the famine and other troubles.”
― William Kamkwamba, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope

“It is important to continue working toward creating the archetype of the self-rescuing princess, empowering girls through depictions of women in STEM.”
― S.Ragle

“Not Only the Sky is the Limit”
― Oneeka Williams

“Even a very little girl can wield a slide rule”
― Hope Jahren, Lab Girl

“Occy's Perfect Sort For World Map Key : Space Element Time Hexagonal Set By: Jonathan Roy Mckinney Aka Lord Seth, Scroll Up”
― Jonathan Roy Mckinney

“The path to success involves having the courage to confront life's failures, as it is through these challenges that people learn and grow, rather than by always thriving.”
― Cathelyn Theophila Tan

“The path to success involves having the courage to confront life's failures, as it is through these challenges that people learn and grow”
― Cathelyn Theophila Tan