More women should actively participate in space flight. There are many well educated women working in the space industry; they are very good candidates.
Valentina TereshkovaRead
I never aimed to be on television or in the press. We all have a personal life, and being a public figure disrupts that.
Interpretation
Public life can intrude on personal life, introducing challenges and disruptions.
Valentina Tereshkova expresses the idea that the desire for public recognition or fame is not universal, and for many, including herself, the intrusion of public life on personal life can be overwhelming. By highlighting the contrast between a personal and public existence, she emphasizes the challenges that come with being in the spotlight, suggesting that personal well-being often takes precedence over public acclaim.
In practice
During a speech about the importance of personal boundaries in public service.
More women should actively participate in space flight. There are many well educated women working in the space industry; they are very good candidates.
It doesn't matter what country or what political system you are from. Space brings you together.
It [the Earth] was breathtakingly beautiful, like something out of a fairy tale. There is no way to describe the joy of seeing the Earth. It is blue, and more beautiful than any other planet.
They forbade me from flying, despite all my protests and arguments. After being once in space, I was desperately keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.
Once you've been in space, you appreciate how small and fragile the Earth is.
I would enjoy flying to Mars. This was the dream of the first cosmonauts. I wish I could realize it! I am ready to fly without coming back.
Racism is a refuge for the ignorant. It seeks to divide and to destroy. It is the enemy of freedom, and deserves to be met head-on and stamped out.
One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all.
Who o'er the herd would wish to reign, Fantastic, fickle, fierce, and vain! Vain as the leaf upon the stream, And fickle as a changeful dream; Fantastic as a woman's mood, And fierce as Frenzy's fever'd blood. Thou many-headed monster thing, Oh who would wish to be thy king!
For 179 years [The Book of Mormon] has been examined and attacked, denied and deconstructed, targeted and torn apart like perhaps no other religious history β perhaps like no other book in any religious history- and still, it stands.
Regard as free not those whose status makes them outwardly free, but those who are free in their character and conduct. For we should not call men truly free when they are wicked and dissolute, since they are slaves to worldly passions. Freedom and happiness of soul consist in genuine purity and detachment from transitory things.
God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.
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