Shannon Lucid Quotes

Girls shouldn't worry about being the equal of men in the business world.

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

I'm strong. I'm outspoken. I feel like I'm equal to men. I can walk in the woods just as much and as far as a man can. Yet I'm still female. I'm very female.

Men are allowed to write songs about people and women are allowed to write songs about women.

Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.

I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

There aren't good roles for women: the female parts aren't developed: the women are serving the men.

Women are very different to men, and that hasn't been respected. So when people say there's never been a good woman painter or poet or engineer or whatever, they don't understand that our skills are many simultaneously and men's skills are single.

Most historians and other writers of what we now consider 'primary sources' simply didn't think about women and their contribution to society. They took it for granted, except when that contribution or its lack directly affected men.

If we can send a man to the moon, then why don't we send a woman?

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.

It's important to make women feel confident, because I think they are more important than men.

Overall, women are a lot more fun to work with than a bunch of men.

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

A bird cannot fly with one wing only. Human space flight cannot develop any further without the active participation of women.

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.

The Catholic men are more upset about women not being able to be priests than are Catholic women.

No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me.

And the first commandment of feminism is: I am woman; thou shalt not tolerate strange gods who assert that women have capabilities or often choose roles that are different from men's.

Until women are as ambitious as men, they're not gong to achieve as much as men.

Men think a woman should not have an opinion.

When I came to M.I.T. in 1960, only 4 percent of the students were female. Today, it's about 40 percent of undergraduates. At Lincoln Lab, they had 1,000 men and two women. But we had a very good boss, and he treated us just like everybody else.

We thought we'd write a good script for women, giving them the fun roles that generally men get.

We will have equality when a female schlemiel moves ahead as fast as a male schlemiel.