145 Quotes by Sally Ride

When you can feel that close to something you’re used to seeing from this great distance, well, it changes a person.

Studying whether there’s life on Mars or studying how the universe began, there’s something magical about pushing back the frontiers of knowledge. That’s something that is almost part of being human, and I’m certain that will continue.

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

It was a real honor for me to get to be the first woman astronaut. I think it’s really important that young girls that are growing up today can see that women can be astronauts too. There have actually been a lot of women, who are astronauts, that that’s a career that’s open to them.

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

It’s easy to sleep floating around – it’s very comfortable. But you have to be careful that you don’t float into somebody or something!

I do a lot of running and hiking, and I also collect stamps – space stamps and Olympics stamps.

The astronauts who came in with me in my astronaut class – my class had 29 men and 6 women – those men were all very used to working with women.

I’ve discovered that half the people would love to go into space and there’s no need to explain it to them. The other half can’t understand and I couldn’t explain it to them. If someone doesn’t know why, I can’t explain it.