The vast majority of the shuttle program was a success. We learned so much about how a reusable spacecraft interacts with its environment, how it ages-and what to design next time.

We want to explore. We're curious people. Look back over history, people have put their lives at stake to go out and explore ... We believe in what we're doing. Now it's time to go.

I don't think of myself as being a woman and having anything to prove.

I'm honored to be the first woman to have the opportunity to command the shuttle. I don't really think about that on a day-to-day basis because I really don't need to.

The atmosphere almost looks like an eggshell on an egg, it's so thin. We know that we don't have much air - we need to protect what we have.

My daughter just thinks that all moms fly the Space Shuttle

I have no nerves, no emotion, no pressure.

I wanted to apply to the astronaut program after the Challenger accident

Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.

There aren't bad ideas but yes bad thoughts

A fair and just society offers equality of opportunity to all. But it cannot promise, and should not try to enforce, sameness.

Most people who decide to grow personally find their first mentors in the pages of books.

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.

Each divorce is the death of a small civilization.

I don't have any idols, any heroes, nothing, no.

I came from the outside, the rules of photography didn't interest me.

Ask me no reason why I love you; for though Love use Reason for his physician, he admits him not for his counsellor.

Two women placed together makes cold weather.