Amelia Earhart Quotes - Page 3

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• I did for the fun of it

  Amelia Earhart

  Fun

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• 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

  Women, Names, Awards

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

  Amelia Earhart

  Pilots, Aviation, Flight

  Amelia Earhart (1928). “20 hrs. 40 min”, Ayer Co Pub

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• 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.

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  Ambition, Flying, May

  Amelia Earhart, Jean L. Backus (1982). “Letters from Amelia, 1901-1937”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

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  War, Done, Barbarism

  Amelia Earhart (1928). “20 hrs. 40 min”, Ayer Co Pub

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

  Amelia Earhart

  Women, Giants, Aviation

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• 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.

  Amelia Earhart

  Flying, Aviation, Flight

  Amelia Earhart (1937). “Last flight”

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• Please let us not interfere with the other's work or play, nor let the world see our private joys or disagreements. In this connection I may have to keep some place where I can go to be myself, now and then, for I cannot guarantee to endure at all times the confinements of even an attractive cage.

  Amelia Earhart

  Play, Joy, Connections

  Amelia Earhart, Jean L. Backus (1982). “Letters from Amelia, 1901-1937”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• 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.

  Amelia Earhart

  Girl, Age, Routine

  Amelia Earhart (2009). “Last Flight”, p.44, Crown

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• 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.

  Amelia Earhart

  Men, Independence, Done

  Amelia Earhart (2009). “Last Flight”, p.50, Crown

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• How can Life grant us boon of living, compensateFor dull grey ugliness and pregnant hateUnless we dareThe soul's dominion? Each time we make a choice, we payWith courage to behold the resistless day,And count it fair.

  Amelia Earhart

  Choices, Soul, Dull

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• The field was wet, the lane was wet, and the spirits of my mechanic and helper were damp.

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  Fields, Spirit, Mechanic

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• I'm getting housemaid's knee kneeling here gulping beauty.

  Amelia Earhart

  Kneeling, Knees, Aviation

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