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I certainly don't recognise myself as the horrible sexist portrayed in media reports, and I don't think the women who have worked with me throughout my career do either.

The astronauts who came in with me in my astronaut class - my class had 29 men and 6 women - those men were all very used to working with women.

I became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong, and compassionate.

I was very strongly influenced by women's magazines and I really believed tha a woman could not be married and raise a family and have a successful career all at the same time.

The issue of gender was never my biggest concern; my biggest concern was doing good work. When the feminist movement really got going, I wasn't an active part of it because I was more concerned with my own mental pursuits.

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

The men I worked for didn't look at me as having any gender at all. They regarded me more as a workhorse.

My life would have gone along perfectly well, politically speaking, if it hadn't been for girls.

I'm a woman, but I've been a sexist, too.