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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 (Shannon Lucid Quotes)
Sometimes people here can get so focused on, oh, I’ve got to get a flight, that it becomes the end all of everything. Then they go off and fly a couple of flights and they think, okay, is that all there is in life? No, it’s not. There’s a whole big life out there (Shannon Lucid Quotes)
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 (Shannon Lucid Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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. (Shannon Lucid Quotes)
You’re in charge but don’t touch the controls (Shannon Lucid Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 (Shannon Lucid Quotes)
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 (Shannon Lucid Quotes)
If you look at the whole thing, I think the most gratifying thing is my kids, without a doubt (Shannon Lucid Quotes)
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 (Shannon Lucid Quotes)