Tag: Selected Quotes

“His business card looked like the invitation to a coming out party for a Houston debutante in the early 1950’s.”

Ride, Sally, Ride, p. 126

“I decided, back in high school, that I wanted nothing more than to be intellectually honest. I made that decision after two semesters with Mr. Satler in sociology—he affected me like looking at the winos downtown could make someone want to be really careful with alcohol.”

Ride, Sally, Ride, p. 120

“I heard a gunshot from a passing car. At the same moment, I heard an angry whizzz go by our heads, like a half-pound bumblebee that figured out how to go a thousand miles per hour. The bricks to the right of us, on the store front, shattered.”

Ride, Sally, Ride, p. 120

“Besides, becoming the American president would involve catering to all the rubes and cornpones in the fly-over section of the country, and Felix didn’t think he was up to that. His skin twitched just thinking about it.”

Ride, Sally, Ride, p. 110

“But he was also an ugly man. But this ugliness—of the plain kind, not the grotesque freak show kind—was combined with uncanny amounts of personal charisma. He could talk virtually anyone into virtually anything, and this was a function of that charisma sloshing out of him whenever he made any sudden movements whatever.”

Ride, Sally, Ride, p. 108

“Look—the libertarian men can be roughly clustered into two groups. There are the party commandos who are largely interested in women and pot and with no one telling them what to do, and then there are all the economics majors who were Murray Rothbard nerds. I had no interest in being the 500th woman for any of the first group, and even less interested in being the first woman for any of the second.”

Ride, Sally, Ride, p. 96

“The next thirty seconds at their table were truly awkward, and walked slowly by, trying to act like ninety seconds.”

Ride, Sally, Ride, p. 94