Amelia Earhart

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.

Mostly, my flying has been solo, but the preparation for it wasn't. Without my husband's help and encouragement, I could not have attempted what I have. Ours has been a contented and reasonable partnership, he with his solo jobs and I with mine. But always with work and play together, conducted under a satisfactory system of dual control.

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

Aviation offered such fun as crossing the continent in planes large and small, trying the whirling rotors of an autogiro, making record flights. With these activities came opportunity to know women everywhere who shared my conviction that there is so much women can do in the modern world and should be permitted to do irrespective of their sex.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

The most effective way to do it, is to do it.

There are two kinds of stones, as everyone knows, one of which rolls.

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

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

The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.

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