Amelia Earhart
Amelia Earhart
Amelia Mary Earhartwas an American aviation pioneer and author. Earhart was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She received the U.S. Distinguished Flying Cross for this record. She set many other records, wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences and was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots. Earhart joined the faculty of the Purdue University aviation department in 1935 as a visiting faculty member to counsel women on careers...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPilot
Date of Birth24 July 1897
CountryUnited States of America
Amelia Earhart quotes about
Human crises have a way of happening at inconvenient times.
My ambition is to have this wonderful gift produce practical results for the future of commercial flying and for the women who may want to fly tomorrow's planes.
I lay no claim to advancing scientific data other than advancing flying knowledge. I can only say that I do it because I want to.
The field was wet, the lane was wet, and the spirits of my mechanic and helper were damp.
Aviation, this young modern giant, exemplifies the possible relationships of women with the creations of science.
So I accept these awards on behalf of the cake bakers and all of those other women who can do some things quite as important, if not more important, than flying, as well as in the name of women flying today.
I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty. That the reasons flyers fly, whether they know it or not, is the aesthetic appeal of flying.
Ours is the commencement of a flying age, and I am happy to have popped into existence at a period so interesting.
I'm getting housemaid's knee kneeling here gulping beauty.
One of my favorite phobias is that girls, especially those whose tastes aren't routine, often don't get a fair break... It has come down through the generations, an inheritance of age-old customs, which produced the corollary that women are bred to timidity.
The soul's dominion? Each time we make a choice, we pay with courage to behold restless day and count it fair.
Now and then women should do for themselves what men have already done—occasionally what men have not done—thereby establishing themselves as persons, and perhaps encouraging other women toward greater independence of thought and action.
When a great adventure is offered, you don't refuse it.
It is the woman who chooses the man who will choose her.