Megan Smith Quotes

I really want to help write women back into history.

I like powerful women, and I gravitate to any point in history when a female has significant power. I can spend hours researching any such amazing lady, from Ching Shih to Hatshepsut to Boudica to Zenobia.

Our women's union members and other women are really excellent and praiseworthy.

When I think of the limitless potential my young daughters, Grace and Brynn, will have as they grow into young women, I want my girls' generation to remember the strength, determination, and struggles of the women who came before them and paved the way.

I'm really glad that I kept the gap. There are a lot of iconic women from past and present who have one.

I really want women to know their power, to value their experience. To understand that nothing has been more wholesome in the political process than the increased involvement of women.

I've always had that gratitude that I had the opportunity to pursue my potential. So I think my story says that, when women are given the chance and the opportunity, that we can achieve a lot. We deliver. We can make the world a better place, one butt at a time.

It is incredible how far women have come and women in sports have come.

I think there are many more stories still to be told about women.

One cannot deny the great role women have played in the world community. My flight was yet another impetus to continue this female contribution.

I look forward to a time, in the not so distant future, when we no longer look forward to 'firsts' as milestones women have yet to achieve, but we look back on them as historic events that continue to teach and inspire.

Women's value has been under-recognized for far too long.

It took the United States until 1920 to give women the franchise and another 40 or 50 years to start utilizing women's potential. How many women of incredible potential did we fail and what achievements were lost to all because we never tapped that potential?

I think there is a role for us as women to contribute to the future of technology.

My hope is that in the future, women stop referring to themselves as 'the only woman' in their physics lab or 'only one of two' in their computer science jobs.

Every woman inspires me.

If we want to get beyond this whole I'm-cool-because-I-care-about-women thing, what we really need to do is we have to start encouraging women to get engineering degrees in college.

Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.

Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.

Women inspire me... so I enjoy women's stories and biographies. I am interested in all women.

When I started working on women's history about thirty years ago, the field did not exist…. People didn't think that women had a history worth knowing

There’s a woman at the beginning of all great things.

The Muslim women have a no lesser role than that of men in the war of liberation; they manufacture men and play a great role in guiding and educating the [new] generation …

In newspaper literature woman made her entrance at an early period and in an important manner. The first daily newspaper in the world was established and edited by a woman, Elizabeth Malet, in London, March, 1702. It was called The Daily Courant.

Women have always been incredible. They've always been amazing.