For A Long Time, Society Put Obstacles

That's Something That Is Almost Part Of Being Human And I'm Certain That Will Continue.

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.

Science Is Fun. Science Is Curiosity. We All Have Natural Curiosity. Science Is A Process Of Investigating. It's Posing Questions And Coming Up With A Method. It's Delving In.

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.

The Astronauts Who Came In With Me In My Astronaut Class - My Class Had 29 Men And 6 Women - Those Men Were All Very Used To Working With Women.