Louise Thaden Quotes

• A pilot who says he has never been frightened in an airplane is, I'm afraid, lying.

  Louise Thaden

  Lying, Airplane, Pilots

  Louise Thaden (1973). “High, Wide and Frightened”, p.15, University of Arkansas Press

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• If you have flown, perhaps you can understand the love a pilot develops for flight. It is much the same emotion a man feels for a woman, or a wife for her husband.

  Louise Thaden

  Husband, Men, Wife

  Louise Thaden (1973). “High, Wide and Frightened”, p.15, University of Arkansas Press

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• There is a decided prejudice on the part of the general public against being piloted by a woman, and as great an aversion, partially because of this, by executives of those companies whose activities require employing pilots.

  Louise Thaden

  Women, Aversion, Pilots

  Louise Thaden (1973). “High, Wide and Frightened”, p.99, University of Arkansas Press

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• To a psychoanalyst, a woman pilot, particularly a married one with children, must prove an interesting as well as an inexhaustible subject. Torn between two loves, emotionally confused, the desire to fly an incurable disease eating out your life in the slow torture of frustration-she cannot be a simple, natural personality.

  Louise Thaden

  Children, Women, Confused

  Louise Thaden (1973). “High, Wide and Frightened”, p.92, University of Arkansas Press

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