GREAT AVIATION QUOTES
Amelia Earhart

There are 52 quotes matching Amelia Earhart in the collection:

I am not urging the employment of unqualified women in the aviation industry. All I hope is that those who have ability and who get adequate training by some means, will be given a chance to make a living as pilots, if they wish to.

Amelia Earhart

Why Are Women Afraid to Fly, Hearst’s International-Cosmopolitan, July 1929.

As flying enters into everyday life, the dreams of centuries become actualities. One by one they take shape and become stepping-stones for other dreams.

Amelia Earhart

Fly America First, Hearst’s International-Cosmopolitan, October 1929.

The trouble nowadays, as it has been always, woman is bred to timidity. This is what handicaps them. From the time they first go to school little girls are taught to be afraid of certain things. In reality most women are just as strong as men. In fact they could do most things as well as men if they were only educated the same way.

Amelia Earhart

Seattle Daily Times newspaper, 15 July 1930.

Too often little attention is paid to individual talent. instead, education goes on dividing people according to their sex, and putting them in little feminine or masculine pigeonholes … Girls are shielded and sometimes helped so much that they lose initiative and begin to believe the signs ‘Girls don’t’ and ‘Girls can’t’ which mark their paths… Consequently, it seems almost necessary to evolve different methods of instruction for them when they later take up the same subjects. For example, those courses which involve mechanical work may have to be explained somewhat differently to girls not because girls are inherently not mechanical, but because normally they have learned little about such things in the course of their education.

Amelia Earhart

The Fun of It, 1932.

Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

Amelia Earhart

The Fun of It, 1932.

Motor cut. Forced landing. Hit cow. Cow died. Scared me.

Dean Smith

Telegraph to his chief, quoted by Amelia Earhart, The Fun of It, 1932.

See one other Dean Smith great aviation quote.

It doesn’t take any more prowess to be a super-flyer than it does to be a super something else.

Amelia Earhart

The Fun of It, 1932.

There are slim ones and plump ones and quiet ones and those who talk all the time. They’re large and small, young and old, and half the list are married and many of these have children. In a word, they are simply thoroughly normal girls and women who happen to have taken up flying rather than golf, swimming or steeplechasing.

Amelia Earhart

Regards women pilots. In her 1932 book The Fun of It.

The moment I saw the planes in flight and heard the rhythmic whirr of their motors, I felt the call of the air.

Amila Earhart

Quoted in Amelia Earhart Answers the Call of Fate, Illustrated Love Magazine, January 1932.

Where am I?
In Gallegher’s pasture … have you come far?
From America.
Have you now?

Amelia Earhart

First solo flight by a woman across the Atlantic, upon arrival in an open field near Londonderry, Northern Ireland, 21 May 1932. Her question was answered by Danny McCallion, a foreman working the land. This is the version in the 2009 biography by Mary LovellThe Sound of Wings: The Life of .

Another biographer, Doris Rich, tells it slightly differently in her 1989 book . Danny McCallion answers, “Sure you’re in Derry, sir.” The sir an easy mistake to make to a pilot in a plane whose face was smeared in grease.

I have flown above and below and through other seas of clouds. And ever I find this new world aloft worth the great price of its conquest.

Amelia Earhart

Cosmopolitan magazine, August 1932.

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.

Amelia Earhart

Speech accepting the Outstanding American Woman of the year award, 14 October 1932. There was a plaque and a chamois purse with $1,000 in gold. Her comments came after an article in the French press praising her skills ended with the query:

“… but can she bake cakes?”

You don't think of yourself when you’re flying any more than you do in driving a car. You don’t ask yourself in a traffic emergency, “Is my hat on straight?” You just think, “Can I get through that hole?” It’s only the backseat drivers who have their minds on themselves … You become a part of the machine.

Amelia Earhart

Quoted in Flying Doesn’t Thrill Amelia—It’s Scenery, Milwaukee Journal newspaper, 29 October 1932.

The next great achievement for women in flying does not lie in the direction of the spectacular, but in attaining their place in the regularly-scheduled air lines as pilots and mechanics—establishing their place in the industry on an equality with men.

Amelia Earhart

Amelia Earhart is most modest about her flights, Vancouver Daily Province newspaper, 4 February 1933.

By the time I was 200 feet in the air, I knew I must learn to be a pilot.

Amelia Earhart

All Must Fly Sooner or Later, Amelia Earhart, Who Is Rabid Air Fan, Tells 400 Clubwomen, Dallas Morning News newspaper, 7 December 1933.

In aviation as a whole, women are outnumbered forty to one, but I feel that more will gain admittance as a greater number knock at the door. If and when you knock at the door, it might be well to bring an ax along; you may have to chop your way through.

Amelia Earhart

1934 speech 'Choosing a Career', quoted in 1997 book East to the Dawn: The Life of Amelia Earhart.

Flying is so much more than just a quick way to traverse space. It’s freedom and color and form and style. I am at home in the air.

Amelia Earhart

A Bird’s-Eye View of Fashions,”Christian Science Monitor newspaper, 7 February 1934.

Aviation, this young modern giant, exemplifies the possible relationships of women with the creations of science.

Amelia Earhart

Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana, 1935.

Aviation is a science that cannot be limited to men only.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt

Letter to Amelia Earhart after becoming the first women to successfully fly from Hawaii to California, January 1935. Quoted in 1989 book Amelia Earhart: A Biography.

See two other Franklin D. Roosevelt great aviation quotes.

My contributions to aviation have proved very little from a scientific standpoint. I have only proved that a woman can accomplish just as much as a man.

Amelia Earhart

Amelia Earhart, Conqueror of Pacific, Talks Transportation with Akron Women, Akron Beacon newspaper, 14 February 1935.

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