Sally Ride Quotations | Page 2

It's too bad our society isn't further along.

Ever been to Disneyland? That was definitely an E ticket!

I can't remember a single time [my parents] ever told me not to do something I wanted to do.

The experience of being in space didn't change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience.

The fact that I was going to be the first American woman to go into space carried huge expectations along with it.

Weightless is a great equalizer.

I did not come to NASA to make history.

Well, we spend an awful lot of our time working and doing experiments. It's very busy up on the shuttle.

My parents must have done a great job. Anytime I wanted to pursue something that they weren't familiar with, that was not part of their lifestyle, they let me go ahead and do it.

Once you are assigned to a flight, the whole crew is assigned at the same time, and then that crew trains together for a whole year to prepare for that flight.