The food isn't too bad. It's very different from the food that the astronauts ate in the very early days of the space program.

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.

I had a dream about you last night... Well I say dream I mean nightmare... you were a Yankee fan.

We are what we read -- and the power of books to transform the minds and personalities of their readers can give cause for anxiety as well as for celebration.

I travel a lot and rarely make it home to Seattle.

I've got my doubts, there's no doubt about it

My mentors are people like Cameron Crowe and Carrie Fisher.

You can't stop the future You can't rewind the past The only way to learn the secret ...is to press play.

Traditions are neither good nor bad, they simply are... Rationality is not an arbiter of traditions, it is itself a tradition or an aspect of a tradition.

For me one of the most important things is not feeling like you have to protect yourself if you're with a real friend.

For both Adam Smith and Karl Marx the essential work of caring for people, starting in early childhood, was "just women's work" - and in their minds not even classified as "productive work."

We have a tendency to want the other person to be a finished product while we give ourselves the grace to evolve.