I think it's important for little girls growing up, and young women, to have one in every walk of life. So from that point of view, I'm proud to be a role model! -Sally Ride Women
For whatever reason, I didn't succumb to the stereotype that science wasn't for girls. I got encouragement from my parents. I never ran into a teacher or a counselor who told me that science was for boys. A lot of my friends did. -Sally Ride Science
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. -Sally Ride Science
For whatever reason, I didn't succumb to the stereotype that science wasn't for girls. I got encouragement from my parents. I never ran into a teacher or a counselor who told me that science was for boys. A lot of my friends did. -Sally Ride Teacher
One thing I probably share with everyone else in the astronaut office is composure. -Sally Ride Space
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. -Sally Ride Space
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. -Sally Ride Knowledge
But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program. -Sally Ride Space
When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen. -Sally Ride Space
I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle. -Sally Ride Space
For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences. -Sally Ride Society
So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do. -Sally Ride Space
The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident. -Sally Ride Space
I liked math - that was my favorite subject - and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical science. -Sally Ride Science
