Amelia Mary Earhart (July 24, 1897 – disappeared July 2, 1937) was an American aviation pioneer and author. Earhart was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She received the U.S. Distinguished Flying Cross for this record. She set many other records, wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences and was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots. Earhart joined the faculty of the Purdue University aviation department in 1935 as a visiting faculty member to counsel women on careers and help inspire others with her love for aviation. She was also a member of the National Woman's Party, and an early supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment. During an attempt to make a circumnavigational flight of the globe in 1937 in a Purdue-funded Lockheed Model 10 Electra, Earhart disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean near Howland Island. Fascination with her life, career and disappearance continues to this day. (Click here for full Wikipedia article)
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Adventure is worthwhile in itself.
Anticipation, I suppose, sometimes exceeds realization.
Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.
I want to do it because I want to do it.
In my life I had come to realize that when things were going very well indeed it was just the time to anticipate trouble.
It is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.
Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn't any good reason to refer to it.
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.
Preparation, I have often said, is rightly two-thirds of any venture.
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.
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.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.
There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.
Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.
Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others.
Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.
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(July 24 is also the birthday of Alexandre Dumas and Zelda Fitzgerald.)
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