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June 18, 2013 05:22 pm GMT
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10 Badass Quotes From Sally Ride
Sally Ride never intended to be a hero. In fact, she was a shy girl who never raised her hand in class, loved to play tennis and read Scientific American religiously. When she responded to a NASA ad calling for applicants, the fine print didn't include shouldering the weight feminism in science. Sally always saw herself as an equal
But that's the thing about true heroes: They never set out to change the world — they're just themselves. For Sally, it all clicked after her first space flight. She was our role model. "And I began to understand the importance of that to people," she told Harvard Business Review shortly before her death in 2012.
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