"Don't let anyone rob you of your immagination, your creativity, or your curiosity."

Mae Jemison, physicist and
astronaut

"I hadn't been aware that there were doors closed to me until I started known on them."

Gertrude B. Elion, winner, Nobel
Prize in Physiology (1988)

"If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn
you off...no matter what they say."

Regina Moran, CEO of Fujitsu
Ireland

"[STEM] is a passport to the world. Engineering is that base qualification that can take you
anywhere."

Barbara McClintock, winner, Nobel
Prize in Physiology (1983)

"Every girl deserves to take part in creating the technology that will change our world and change
who runs it."

Malala Yousefzai, winner, Nobel
Peace Prize (2014)

"I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy."

Marie Curie, winner of two Nobel
Prizes in Physics (1903 and 1911)