Even geniuses can be stupid when they’re scared.

Without a plane, what was I supposed to do? Math the problem to death?

Grief pops up at the strangest times.

There’s a thing that happens to people when they are helpless. They become afraid of things that in their normal life wouldn’t faze them at all.

I would rather have you honestly angry with me than polite.

Perfection is different to every viewer.

I respect secrets, but I would rather have you tell me that something is off-limits than have you give me misinformation. A hole in the data, I can work with.

Nathaniel and I were a healthy young married couple, so most of the stars I saw were painted across the inside of my eyelids.

I dug into the thigh pocket of my trousers – by the way, the best thing about life on the Moon is all the pockets –.

I have three books you need to read. Rise of the Rocket Girls by Nathalia Holt, Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly, and The Glass Universe by Dava Sobel. All three of these books focus on the women mathematicians – the “computers” – who powered astronomy and rocketry.