16 Quotes by Lily Koppel

I'm still very interested in telling one-of-a-kind women's stories.

We've all heard about space and landing on the moon, but somehow it's a very tom-boyish adventure. It's planting the flag on the moon by Neil Armstrong, and it has this very male-hero edge to it.

America’s space age was officially announced on April 9, 1959.

Apollo 17 would be the sixth and final flight to the Moon. In total, the American space program had taken the work of two and a half million people and had cost nearly $25 billion.

Florence has a passion for books. When she saw the one she was seeking, she would recognize it, as if the volume had belonged to her in a previous life.

How I love – writing, acting, breathing the atmosphere- and one day I’ll have it. If I cannot write, I shall die.

Read until my eyes ached – it was hardly important – but proof again that there is always an escape.