Valentina Tereshkova Quotes

From day one, I have been told I am no different from the male astronauts. As a pilot, I flew in the sky. Now that I am an astronaut, I will fly in space.

If women can be railroad workers in Russia, why can't they fly in space?

On Earth, men and women are taking the same risks. Why shouldn't we be taking the same risks in space?

I wouldn't oppose a women's astronaut training program; I just see no requirement for it.

We can celebrate how far we've come from our sexist past when women and men are equally represented in the pages of science fiction anthologies.

When I got to be a CEO, I said: 'Right. I'm now going to tackle gender inequality head-on. I'm going to make a difference and lead by example and actively put in place policies and practices to support women.'

Four out of five HSN corporate officers are women. I'm a believer that a diversity of mindset enables us to have an engaged conversation.

We live in a world where sports have the potential to bridge the gap between racism, sexism and discrimination. The 2012 Olympic Games was a great start but hopefully what these games taught us is that if women are given an opportunity on an equal playing field the possibilities for women are endless.

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.

Half of my employees are women.

I think there's so many points of view that you want to make sure your stories are being told from men and women... you get all of the different backgrounds. You don't want every story being told from the same point of view. So just for better storytelling, I'm like, 'Yes, please, bring some more ladies on.'

People at agencies and studios, including the parent boards, might look around the table at the decision-making level and feel something is wrong if half their participants are not women. Because our tastes are different, what we value is different. Not better, different.

To be honest, women just make us smarter. They make us better. I've noticed that in my workplace. I've noticed that at home. I've noticed that in my past experiences in life.

It's a question of not so much pushing the boys out of the picture, but making the whole frame bigger so that both men and women access the labor market, contribute to the economy, generate growth, have jobs, and so on.

We need to create a society where girls and women are getting the same encouragement and support to build their careers as the boys and men are. From the start.

There will never be a new world order until women are a part of it.

Generally my feeling is that I think women are just in a universal way coming out, coming to their own more. And they have more opportunity, and basically we're equal.

Sporting events like the Olympics have developed and maintained a clear message of promoting gender equality as an essential criterion in the success of any international event.

More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.

For me, a better democracy is a democracy where women do not only have the right to vote and to elect but to be elected.

More women should actively participate in space flight. There are many well educated women working in the space industry; they are very good candidates.

What I said was that in a democratic society, people must be permitted to make their choices and that the choices of women should not be subordinate to the choices of men, otherwise women are less than equal, are second-class citizens.

Avon is a unique place to work; we've got family-friendly policies. We have more senior women in high-level management than any other company; 46 percent of our officers are women.

Gender equality will only be reached if we are able to empower women.

One of the problems in the biotech world is the lack of women in leadership roles, and I'd like to see that change by walking the walk.