Shannon Lucid famous quotes

Basically, all my life I'd been told you can't do that because you're female. So I guess I just didn't pay any attention. I just went ahead and did what I could and then, when the stars aligned, I was ready.
-- Shannon Lucid

#Stars #Pay #Female

You think America is the biggest place on Earth, but it's not. [The view from Mir] put everything in perspective.
-- Shannon Lucid

#Art #Attitude #Thinking

If you look at the whole thing, I think the most gratifying thing is my kids, without a doubt.
-- Shannon Lucid

#Kids #Thinking #Doubt

When I got my PhD, it was a time when there were just no jobs for PhDs. Period. PhDs were getting the lowest paid technician jobs, if they were lucky, in any kind of science.
-- Shannon Lucid

#Jobs #Lucky #Phds

It was just using the liquid shampoo - the Russians have one very similar to the stuff we use on the Shuttle - you just wet your hair with it and then wipe it out.
-- Shannon Lucid

#Eyebrows #Hair #Use

The only thing it would be nice to have more of would be M & M's.
-- Shannon Lucid

#Nice #Space #Would Be

You're in charge but don't touch the controls.
-- Shannon Lucid

#Space

It was just really, really tough getting anything when you were a female. Basically, I just took advantage of everything I could. But when people are going to flat out tell you they're not going to hire anyone that's female, there's not much you can do about it.
-- Shannon Lucid

#People #Female #Tough

I think that over the years, whether they want to admit it or not, people have to admit that the women astronauts have performed just as well as the men astronauts.
-- Shannon Lucid

#Men #Thinking #Years

You're in charge but don't touch the controls. Recounting what the two Russian cosmonauts tell her each time they leave the Mir space station for a spacewalk.
-- Shannon Lucid

#Time #Space #Two

I was really desperate. I don't know if you can remember back that far, but when I went to graduate school they didn't want females in graduate school. They were very open about it. They didn't mince their words. But then I got in and I got my degree.
-- Shannon Lucid

#Graduation #School #Want