GREAT AVIATION QUOTES
Amelia Earhart

There are 52 quotes matching Amelia Earhart in the collection:

Please know I am quite aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others.

Amelia Earhart

In a letter left for her husband to open in case she failed on he round-the-world flight. Last Flight, 1937.

Men do not believe us capable. We can fly—you know that. Ever since we started we’ve batted our heads against a stone wall. Manufacturers refuse us planes. The public have no confidence in our ability. If we had access to the equipment and training men have, we could certainly do as well. Thank heaven, we continue willingly fighting a losing battle. …

But if enough of us keep trying, we’ll get someplace.

Amelia Earhart

Quoted in Louise Thaden’s 1938 book High, Wide and Frightened.

Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get get more notoriety when they crash.

Amelia Earhart

Quoted by her husband in his 1939 book Soaring Wings: A Biography of Amelia Earhart.

I didn’t know a lot about Amelia before I started [flying]. And as a woman and a pilot, I should have known more.

Linda Finch

Prior to starting out on a flight retracing Amelia Earhart last journey, 1997.

Courage is the price that
Life exacts for granting peace.
The soul that knows it not, knows no release
From little things:
Knows not the livid loneliness of fear,
Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear
The sound of wings.

Amelia Earhart

Written circa 1928. Published in Amelia, My Courageous Sister: Biography of Amelia Earhart, 1987.

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

Inbred Timidity Handicap to Women, Says Amelia Earhart, Seattle Daily Times, 15 July 1930. Earhart was influenced here by Dora Russell, author in 1927 of The Right to Be Happy, who described women as being bred for timidity.

Flying is the best possible thing for women.

Raymonde de Laroche

First licensed woman pilot, regards receiving her license, 8 March 1910. Quoted in 2009 book Women Aviators: From Amelia Earhart to Sally Ride, Making History in Air and Space.

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As soon as we left the ground I knew I myself had to fly!

Amelia Earhart

After her first flight in an airplane, a ten minute sight-seeing trip over Los Angeles, 1920. Quoted in the 1989 book : A Biography

Courage is the price that life extracts for granting peace.
The soul that knows it not, knows no release
From little things;
Knows not the livid loneliness of fear,
Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear
The sound of wings.

Amelia Earhart

1927. Published as Courage, Survey magazine, 1 July 1928.

To my mind there is as much danger on a yacht as there is in an airplane

Amelia Earhart

Take to the Air, Boston Herald newspaper, 3 July 1927.

Why does a man ride a horse?

Amelia Earhart

After being asked “Why do you want to fly the Atlantic?” by George Putnam, while interviewing ladies as part of his plan to put the first woman over the ocean, 1928. He went on to marry her. Quoted in 2018 book Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History.

Ours is the commencement of a flying age, and I am happy to have popped into existence at a period so interesting.

Amelia Earhart

20 Hrs 40 Mins, 1928.

Trouble in the air is very rare. It is hitting the ground that causes it.

Amelia Earhart

20 Hrs 40 Mins, 1928.

In soloing — as in other activities — it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.

Amelia Earhart

20 Hours: 40 minutes, 1928.

I am getting housemaid’s knee kneeling here gulping beauty.

Amelia Earhart

Comment in logbook while flying the Atlantic, June 1928. Quoted in 1963 book Courage is the price: The biography of .

I was a passenger on the journey—just a passenger. Everything that was done to bring us across was done by Wilmer Stultz and Slim Gordon. Any praise I can give them … they ought to have. You can’t pile it on too thick … I did not handle the controls once, although I have had more than 500 hurs solo flying and once held the women’s altitude record. I do not believe that women lack the stamina to do a solo trip across the Atlantic, but it would be a matter of learning the arts of flying by instruments only, an art which few men pilots know perfectly now.

Amelia Earhart

Advertised as the first flight of a woman across the Atlantic. Although she was promised time at the controls, Earhart never flew the plane during the over 20-hour flight with Wilmer 'Bill' Stultz and Louis 'Slim' Gordon. The New York Times, 19 June 1928.

Some day women will fly the Atlantic and think little of it because it is an ordinary thing to do

Amelia Earhart

Miss Earhart on Her Adventure, The Times newspaper, London, 21 June 1928.

Women should realize that really any woman who can drive a motorcar can learn to pilot an airplane.

Amelia Earhart

New York Hails Amelia Earhart as ‘Lady Lindy’, Christian Science Monitor, 6 July 1928.

Women must try to do things as men have tried, When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others.

Amelia Earhart

In The New York Times, 29 July 1928.

I go wherever I please, or rather wherever I can land.

Amelia Earhart

Amelia Earhart Spends Day Here; Gale Halts Ship, Omaha World Herald newspaper, 10 October 1928.

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