I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.

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

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.

All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.

It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission.

Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.

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.

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

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

When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen.

We need to make science cool again.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

She asked where he lived. Second to the right, ' said Peter, 'and then straight on till morning.

To enjoy a great life, often have a great laugh.

When you begin to overlook the routine act of kindness given by a generous & caring soul, you unwittingly halt your blessings

I pretend I've got lots of confidence and I'm a big jock and like that but deep inside I'm a frightened, insecure, can't-make-it failure.

Being cross-genre, you can encounter an image and decide not only how to best express it but what form would express it best.

You make decisions and you're not going to please everybody all the time.

No... a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even when I'm doing very well I write slowly.

But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.

What the psychedelic thing can be seen as, when it's done with plants, as a return to Gaia, an immersion in the feminine.