145 Quotes by Sally Ride

I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis.

It takes a few years to prepare for a space mission.

It's well known that many girls have a tendency to dumb down when they're in middle school.

NASA has to approve whatever we wear, so there are clothes to choose from, like space shorts - we wear those a lot - and NASA T-shirts.

On both of my flights, everything went very well.

One thing I probably share with everyone else in the astronaut office is composure.

So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.

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.

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.