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If enough of us keep trying, we'll get someplace.

Amelia Earhart

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Amelia Earhart
Age: 39 †
Born: 1897
Born: July 24
Died: 1937
Died: July 2
Aircraft Pilot
Aviator
Journalist
Memoirist
Travel Writer
Writer
Atchison County
Missouri
Amelia Mary Earhart
Lady Lindy
Amelia Earhart Putnam
Enough
Trying
Someplace
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Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.
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In my life I had come to realize that when things were going very well indeed it was just the time to anticipate trouble. And, conversely, I learned from pleasant experience that at the most despairing crisis, when all looked sour beyond words, some delightful break was apt to lurk just around the corner.
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No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another.
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No borders, just horizons - only freedom.
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Being alone is scary, but not as scary as feeling alone in a relationship.
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You haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky.
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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.
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Adventure is worthwhile in itself.
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Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.
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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.
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I lay no claim to advancing scientific data other than advancing flying knowledge. I can only say that I do it because I want to.
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I did for the fun of it
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Trouble in the air is very rare. It is hitting the ground that causes it.
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Please know that I am 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 a challenge to others.
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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.
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The lure of flying is the lure of beauty.
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Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.
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The most difficult thing is the decision to act. The rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life and the procedure. The process is its own reward.
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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.
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There are two kinds of stones, as everyone knows, one of which rolls.
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