{"author":"Sally Ride","author_id":"Sally+Ride","total_quotes":21,"quotes":[{"text":"I think it's important for little girls growing up, and young women, to have one in every walk of life. So from that point of view, I'm proud to be a role model!","author":"Sally Ride","tags":["life","walk","little girls "],"id":38186,"author_id":"Sally+Ride"},{"text":"I did not come to NASA to make history.","author":"Sally Ride","tags":["nasa","come","did "],"id":41400,"author_id":"Sally+Ride"},{"text":"For whatever reason, I didn't succumb to the stereotype that science wasn't for girls. I got encouragement from my parents. I never ran into a teacher or a counselor who told me that science was for boys. A lot of my friends did.","author":"Sally Ride","tags":["teacher","friends","parents "],"id":72987,"author_id":"Sally+Ride"},{"text":"For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.","author":"Sally Ride","tags":["time","women","obstacles "],"id":82695,"author_id":"Sally+Ride"},{"text":"The view of Earth is spectacular.","author":"Sally Ride","tags":["view","earth","spectacular "],"id":105587,"author_id":"Sally+Ride"},{"text":"Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in.","author":"Sally Ride","tags":["curiosity","fun","questions "],"id":112842,"author_id":"Sally+Ride"},{"text":"I liked math - that was my favorite subject - and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical science.","author":"Sally Ride","tags":["favorite","astronomy","math "],"id":219540,"author_id":"Sally+Ride"},{"text":"So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.","author":"Sally Ride","tags":["you","lift","ready "],"id":226604,"author_id":"Sally+Ride"},{"text":"Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.","author":"Sally Ride","tags":["responsibility","woman "],"id":235616,"author_id":"Sally+Ride"},{"text":"The stars don't look bigger, but they do look brighter.","author":"Sally Ride","tags":["stars","look","bigger "],"id":239206,"author_id":"Sally+Ride"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":21,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}