Childhood Dreams

“As a little child, I cried because I wanted to fly into outer space. My parents found it hard to pacify me with toys. I also wanted to explore the depths of the ocean floor as much as I wanted to sail across the high heavens. And so I became a PADI-certified scuba diver and also a student pilot.”
-- Namira Salim. "Namira — first female astronaut from Dubai," Khaleej Times Online, 2 April 2006. She would be the first Pakistani woman to be in space on the Virgin Galactic Space Ship in 2008.

I need a vacation!

...I've always taken big vacations. I get quite intense about what I'm doing and get very involved with work, and then I take my vacations, which have usually been climbing mountains or skiing or doing a lot of exploration.
-- Frances Allen in Frances Allen's Oral History Interview - Transcript. She is the first woman to receive the Turing Award.

Two sides of the same coin

"When a man gives his opinion, he's a man; when a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch."
-- Bette Davis, as quoted in "Who are you calling a bitch?," The Guardian, January 26, 2007.