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• Margot Lee Shetterly:

  We want the big stories, of course, of the great men, but there's as much drama and interest and le

• Margot Lee Shetterly:

  My dad worked at NASA his whole career; he's a research scientist.

• Margot Lee Shetterly:

  I knew a lot of black scientists, engineers, and mathematicians, and female mathematicians and engi

• Margot Lee Shetterly:

  I feel like, in a lot of ways, 'Hidden Figures' is the book that I wrote and have been waiting to r

• Margot Lee Shetterly:

  A lot of times, when you have a story of minorities in America, it's always this super, oppositiona

• Margot Lee Shetterly:

  The black experience isn't exclusively slavery/civil rights/Obama.

• Margot Lee Shetterly:

  As much as I think it is necessary and desirable for white people to have an expanded view of the b

• Margot Lee Shetterly:

  That's what 'Star Trek' was: We don't know how to make an ideal society, but we're going to portray

• Margot Lee Shetterly:

  Without imagination, I don't think there's any progress.

• Margot Lee Shetterly:

  Katherine Johnson actually integrated the public university in West Virginia. And Mary Jackson had