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Aviation, this young modern giant, exemplifies the possible relationship of women and the creations of science. Although women have not taken full advantage of its use and benefits, air travel is as available to them as to men.

More women should actively participate in space flight. There are many well educated women working in the space industry; they are very good candidates.

I would like to see a lot of people more involved in practical solutions to practical problems. Women have got to the point where we can turn the world upside down.

Aviation offered such fun as crossing the continent in planes large and small, trying the whirling rotors of an autogiro, making record flights. With these activities came opportunity to know women everywhere who shared my conviction that there is so much women can do in the modern world and should be permitted to do irrespective of their sex.

My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor.

It doesn't help to just get women's opinions and then turn them over to an all-white-male engineering team.

Women did not have as many options as men, and I need to reflect that reality in my mysteries.

When I was a physics major in the late 1970s, my very few fellow female students and I had high hopes that women would soon stand equal with men in science. But progress has proved slower than many of us imagined.

I really think we need more women to lean into their careers and to be really dedicated to staying in the work force.

Our goal in the '70s was to end the closed door era. There were so many things that were off limits to women: policing, firefighting, mining, piloting planes.