Beth Lapides Quotes

Most people never believed in the real possibility of going to the moon, and neither did I until I was in my twenties.

I think I was very interested in the space program as a kid, watching the first Apollo missions to the moon, and it's something I thought that would be a lot of, of fun and exciting and a very worthwhile job.

Sending a couple of guys to the Moon and bringing them back safely? That's a stunt! That's not historic.

The real victims of men are other men.

A woman who does not become the slave of just one man becomes the slave of all men.

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

From the cradle to the grave she is subject to the power and control of man. Father, guardian, or husband, one conveys her like some piece of merchandise over to the other.

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.

We've gotta reinvest in space travel. We should've never left the moon.

'Women's fashion' is a euphemism for fashion created by men for women.

America can take man to the moon, and America can take men to Mars - and beyond.

I fully expect that NASA will send me back to the moon as they treated Sen. Glenn, and if they don't do otherwise, why, then I'll have to do it myself.

I want to get to the moon. I want to go to Mars.

I don't think the space station is innovative. Going to the moon was innovative because we had no idea how to do it.

I never call them 'guys;' I always call them 'boys.' Maybe it's a superiority complex - my needing to keep them down.

Men are very tough, very critical of me. I think they expect you to basically just be a picture. They don't want to hear you speak.

Do I let a group of power-mongering men with short penises tell me what to do?

For the new century, back to the moon, back to the future and this time back to stay. And then a journey into tomorrow, a journey to another planet, a manned mission to Mars.

There exists in the minds of men a tone of feeling toward women as toward slaves.

That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

We're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges.... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.

So many times, you get sent scripts where it's, like, the token chick, where the woman is just there to serve the man in the film.

There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.

Violence has always been unfortunately embedded in masculinity, this alpha thing.

I'm 9, 10, and I'm watching the Apollo astronauts go to the moon. We're sitting on the floor of a school, and they have this... huge TV, and I'm looking at that, and I'm thinking 'Me, I would like to do that.' But it didn't dawn on me then that they were American; I was Canadian. They were men; I was a girl. They were test pilots, military folks.