"Sometimes a woman needs to show her competence before the guys “accept” her and trust her". - Eileen Collins

"I also should credit all the women pilots before me, including the Women Airforce Service Pilots of WWII and the Mercury 13 women who passed the difficult astronaut exams in the early 1960s".

I asked my crew to be creative, to think about everything that could go wrong during the mission that no one has thought about yet and bring it to the attention of the flight control team

"It’s hard for the astronauts to meet everybody because we have responsibilities in the office and families we need to see, so we try to spread out".