We've both been married before and our previous experiences made us fearful of commitment.
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.
I would like to be remembered as someone who was not afraid to do what she wanted to do, and as someone who took risks along the way in order to achieve her goals.
If we want scientists and engineers in the future, we should be cultivating the girls as much as the boys.
The best advice I can give anybody is to try to understand who you are and what you want to do, and don't be afraid to go down that road and do whatever it takes and work as hard as you have to work to achieve that.
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.
I never went into physics or the astronaut corps to become a role model. But after my first flight, it became clear to me that I was one. And I began to understand the importance of that to people. Young girls need to see role models in whatever careers they may choose, just so they can picture themselves doing those jobs someday. You can't be what you can't see.
Get into the habit of saying, ''Speak, Lord,'' and life will become a romance.
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
My boyhood ambition was to be able to earn my own living, without the help of anybody, anywhere.
Blessed is he or she who avoids being offended.