“Of course, it's a dream to go to Mars. I want to find out whether ther...” — Valentina Tereshkova Quote

“Of course, it's a dream to go to Mars. I want to find out whether there was life there or not. And if there was, then why did it die out? What sort of catastrophe happened?”

“I would not say that female cosmonauts are not welcomed in the Russian space program. I must say, however, that all spaceflight hardware, including spacesuits and spacecraft comfort assuring systems, were designed mostly by men and for men.”

“I never aimed to be on television or in the press. We all have a personal life, and being a public figure disrupts that.”

“The missing toothbrush was nothing compared with the fact that the spacecraft was orientated to ascend, not descend. I would have gone up and up instead of going back down to the ground.”

“The ideals of the party were close to me, and I have tried to adhere to those principles all my life. In essence, they are the same as in the Ten Commandments in the Bible. I will never change my convictions.”

“Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.”

“Congress should be forward thinking in the policies we set, instead of waiting until catastrophe looms.”

“The sense of national catastrophe is inevitably heightened in a television age, when the whole country participates in it.”

“A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe.”

“Life delivered me a catastrophe, but I found a richness of soul.”

“You see families at a restaurant and the kids are on the phone and the adults are on the phone. It's just a catastrophe.”