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Wally Schirra

"Each test pilot I know considers him, or herself, now that there are women, to be the very best. It's very demeaning to step down the ladder once in a while."

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"Each test pilot I know considers him, or herself, now that there are women, to be the very best. It's very demeaning to step down the ladder once in a while."

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"The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed."

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"Every woman is just a different kind of problem."

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"I live in a house with four women. Just shut up and say, Yes, ma'am."

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"It is true that a fellow cannot ignore women - but he can think of them as he ought - as sisters, not as sparring partners."

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"There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass."

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"If we hold true to our ideals and our commitment to freedom, this generation of servicemen and women will have extended liberty to the Iraqi people, just as previous generations of Americans have all across the globe."

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"Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!"

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"Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference."

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"I became obsessed with all these women who die never feeling they did anything extraordinary with their lives."

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"I know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman."

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"I was told having a website would help me. I have yet to figure out why my life story needs to be on the web."
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"I saw the booster, not Sputnik, flying by, and I said, maybe this is the way we should be going, not just sitting back waiting for something to happen."
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"I remember seeing war hero Jimmy Doolittle fly a Gee Bee racer there. He was my childhood hero. Many years later, I was lucky enough to go hunting with him."
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"I don't think the space station will ever do anything for exploration. Putting people up there for a year or more is the only way you will get anywhere near the exploration concept."
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"At the end of our NASA careers, no one had a place for us in the military."
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"Kennedy had made a mess in Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. He had to do something to look good. The Apollo program of going to the Moon was quite a goal,."
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"I don't go along with going to Moon first to build a launch pad to go to Mars. We should go to Mars from Earth orbit. We have already been to the Moon; we've already practiced."
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"Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days."
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"John Glenn craved the publicity. I think even John would admit that. When he went into politics, that became pretty obvious! He knew how to do public relations."
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"I've always thought space station is a great name. It should be like a gas station where we go for service and supplies before heading further out."
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