Top 31 Quotes by Valentina Tereshkova

Once you've been in space, you appreciate how small and fragile the Earth is.

After being once in space, I was keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.

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.

I see Vostok-6 quite often in the centre for cosmonaut training. And every time I pass it by, I stroke it and say, 'My lovely one, my best and most beautiful friend, my best and most beautiful man.'

It doesn't matter what country or what political system you are from. Space brings you together.

You don't think about the danger. The spaceship becomes your home.

On Earth, men and women are taking the same risks. Why shouldn't we be taking the same risks in space?

We didn't have rest days or weekends because we had to get ready as fast as possible, so we could beat the Americans, who were also racing to send a woman into space.

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

Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility - we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward.