If it wasn't for the women's movement, I wouldn't be where I am today.

I've spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don't see why I should start now.

One thing I probably share with everyone else in the astronaut office is composure.

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.

We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form.

I love the John Glenn model... I may call NASA in 25 years or so, and see if they'd like to send me to Mars.

The view of earth is spectacular from space. Most people imagine that when astronauts look out the window of the shuttle they see the whole earth like that big blue marble that was made famous by the flights that went to the moon. But the shuttle is much, much closer than those astronauts were. So we don't see the whole planet, the whole ball at once, we just see parts of it.