Shannon Lucid quotes
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“Basically, all my life I'd been told you can't do that because you're female. So I guess I just didn't pay any attention. I just went ahead and did what I could and then, when the stars aligned, I was ready.”
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“You think America is the biggest place on Earth, but it's not. [The view from Mir] put everything in perspective.”
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“If you look at the whole thing, I think the most gratifying thing is my kids, without a doubt.”
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“When I got my PhD, it was a time when there were just no jobs for PhDs. Period. PhDs were getting the lowest paid technician jobs, if they were lucky, in any kind of science.”
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“It was just using the liquid shampoo - the Russians have one very similar to the stuff we use on the Shuttle - you just wet your hair with it and then wipe it out.”
-- Shannon LucidSource : ""Living on Mir: An Interview with Dr. Shannon Lucid". Interview with Patrick Meyer, www.encyclopedia.com. March 1998.
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“The only thing it would be nice to have more of would be M & M's.”
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“You're in charge but don't touch the controls.”
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“It was just really, really tough getting anything when you were a female. Basically, I just took advantage of everything I could. But when people are going to flat out tell you they're not going to hire anyone that's female, there's not much you can do about it.”
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“I think that over the years, whether they want to admit it or not, people have to admit that the women astronauts have performed just as well as the men astronauts.”
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“You're in charge but don't touch the controls. Recounting what the two Russian cosmonauts tell her each time they leave the Mir space station for a spacewalk.”
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“I was really desperate. I don't know if you can remember back that far, but when I went to graduate school they didn't want females in graduate school. They were very open about it. They didn't mince their words. But then I got in and I got my degree.”
-- Shannon Lucid
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