I've never lost my appetite for acting; it's innovative and challenging.
My daughter just thinks that all moms fly the Space Shuttle
We want to explore. We're curious people. Look back over history, people have put their lives at stake to go out and explore. . . We believe in what we're doing. Now it's time to go.
Some people said, “we don't want to risk astronauts lives anymore, we need to stop doing this”. The astronauts don't feel that wayWe fly for our country, we fly for humanity, we fly for exploration, we fly for a variety of reasons, and we don't stop flying because we have accidents.
I don't think of myself as being a woman and having anything to prove.
Because of [Amelia Earhart], we had more women available to fly in the 1940's to help us get through World War II. And because of these women, women of my generation are able to look back and say, 'Hey, they did it. They even flew military airplanes, we can do it, too. '
I'm honored to be the first woman to have the opportunity to command the shuttle. I don't really think about that on a day-to-day basis because I really don't need to.
The two best interview subjects are children under 10 and people over 70 for the same reason: they say the first thing that comes to their mind. The children don't know what they're saying and the old folks don't care.
That's usually how I get to know strangers - get inappropriately touchy. Once they've experienced the awkwardness of you being way too close for comfort, after that, it all gets easy.
Thanksgiving is every day because in this physical body you can spring into eternal paradise.
The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism.