Sally Ride Quotes

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.

I'd like to see women get on to boards and run companies despite the fact that men occupy the citadels of power.

For whatever reason, I didn't succumb to the stereotype that science wasn't for girls. I got encouragement from my parents. I never ran into a teacher or a counselor who told me that science was for boys. A lot of my friends did.

On education, in order to ensure that America remains a world leader, we must create an educated, skilled workforce in the vital areas of science, math, engineering and information technology. At the same time, we must give every student access to a college degree.

We will have to be very vigilant that young female scientists have the same opportunities as their male colleagues.

If we want to get beyond this whole I'm-cool-because-I-care-about-women thing, what we really need to do is we have to start encouraging women to get engineering degrees in college.

One of the reasons I like working with schools is to try to convince women that they can be scientists and that science can be fun.

I feel it is now my duty to speak to young women, to encourage them to have careers and, particularly, careers in science.

I've had young women come to me and say that before they watched 'Voyager' it didn't really occur to them that they could be successful in a higher position in the field of science; girls going to MIT, girls pursuing astrophysics with a view to a career in NASA.

Half of my employees are women.

We need Hollywood to make movies and television shows about sexy female engineers.

The world of humanity is possessed of two wings, the male and the female. So long as these two wings are not equivalent in strength, the bird will not fly

I think it will be great if we have more female directors in the world.

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.

Negative gender stereotypes related to girls' education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics begin as early as primary school and have the devastating effect of making them doubt their own potential.

I love math and science, and also, my mom is a doctor. I grew up not even having an awareness that women were not supposed to be good at science.

Men should be able to see themselves in female characters and female strength, just as much as women are able to see themselves in male characters.

Empowering women isn’t just the right thing to do - it’s the smart thing to do.

I don't have the advocates. I don't have a good old boys network. Part of what I want to do is to create a good old girls network.

I grew up in the suburbs of Cleveland in 1988 and there was just one year where suddenly all of the delivery kids that used to be boys were suddenly girls. It happened at our church too. Altar boys were suddenly altar girls. There was just this sense that all these young women knew there were openings here to be the first of their kind.

Someday hopefully it won’t be necessary to allocate a special evening to celebrate where we are and how far we’ve come…someday women writers, producers and crew members will be so commonplace, and roles and salaries for actresses will outstrip those for men, and pigs will fly.

I want to see more women behind the scenes.

I didn't want to be the girl in the group that couldn't do as much as the boys. I'm very competitive like that.

With the pay gap in Hollywood, I think it's very easy to say - 'oh, what are they complaining for? They're making millions of dollars.' But by having a woman in the industry do this, it's easier for others to see it.

I believe in gender equality and I love that I can represent strong modern-day women.