Quotes from Sally Ride

If it wasn't for the women's movement, I wouldn't be where I am today.

For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.

For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.

The stars don't look bigger, but they do look brighter.

Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in.

I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.

Three Secrets to Success: Be willing to learn new things. Be able to assimilate new information quickly. Be able to get along with and work with other people.

There are lots of opportunities out there for women to work in these fields, ... Girls just need support, encouragement and mentoring to follow through with the sciences.

I have a lot of common sense. I know what needs to be done and how to approach it. I have an ability to work with people on large enterprises.

We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form.

I liked math - that was my favorite subject - and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical science.

The view of Earth is spectacular.

The food isn't too bad. It's very different from the food that the astronauts ate in the very early days of the space program.

If we want scientists and engineers in the future, we should be cultivating the girls as much as the boys.

Our future lies with today's kids and tomorrow's space exploration.

Women make up only 25 percent of the science, engineering and technology workforce... We are delighted to be working with NASA Ames to give Silicon Valley area girls a chance to explore and develop their potential in science at an age when many begin to drift away from their natural interest.