Helen Sharman Quotes

It would need more than the 19th Amendment to convince me that there are no differences between men and women, or that legislation cannot take those differences into account.

The gentle and insinuating manners of the female sex tend to soften the roughness of the other sex.

On Earth, men are seen as superior because of their physical strength, but it means nothing in space, where there is no gravity.

I think a lot of the American people feel more than a little disappointed that the high-water mark for human exploration was 1969. The dream of human space travel has almost died for a lot of people.

I've come to learn that there is a real difference between men and women. It's genetic.

Many differences are rooted in biology and reinforced through culture, so it's important to acknowledge that. Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are.

Men and women's needs and desires overlap but go in different directions as well.

Over the years, the most ponderous problem for women has been that men think that men and women are very different. Another of our massive problems is that women also think that men and women are very different.

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

When 'Apollo 13' appeared as an opportunity and I began to tackle that in as authentic a way as I possibly could, I really became enthralled by the philosophical side of space travel and why we need to explore - what it means to us here on Earth - all of those things. I became a huge proponent.

Men and women aren't the same. And they won't be the same. That doesn't mean that they can't be treated fairly.

Everything was so new - the whole idea of going into space was new and daring. There were no textbooks, so we had to write them.

I say that male and female are cast in the same mold; except for education and habits, the difference is not great.

I think the differences between men and women, it's kind of hard to define what those are and the challenges, what they are. I think there are challenging things for everybody.

I don't think men try to make women be like them, but I think women try to make men be like them, a lot.

We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation.

Modern-era feminists believe that there is no inherent difference in men and women, that it's all the way they're raised.

There are aspects of being the first woman in space that I'm not going to enjoy.

I don't buy this premise that the number of minifigures needs to be an equal amount to be gender neutral. Nobody makes artistic products like that; nobody makes a movie and says there has to be equal numbers of men and women.

Women and men just aren't that different. Oh, we're different in some intriguing ways, and it can be fun to band together for all-gal or all-guy projects. But when it comes to the tragic mess Christ came to heal, we're pretty much the same.

I was a frustrated astronaut all my life. I grew up at a time when space seemed to have no boundaries, and lots of us presumed humans would be living on the moon and landing on Mars.

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

Astronauts have been stuck in low-Earth orbit, boldly going nowhere. American attempts to kick-start a new phase of lunar exploration have stalled amid the realisation that NASA's budget is too small for the job.

My childhood dreams were focused on being part of the effort to make humanity a multiplanetary species.

Space is going to be commonplace.