Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
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.
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 but a challenge to others.
Never interrupt someone doing something you said couldn’t be done.
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.
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.
Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
The more one does and sees and feels the more one is able to do and the more genuine may be one’s own appreciation of fundamental things like home and love and understanding companionship.
In soloing-as in other activities-it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.
The woman who can create her own job is the one who will win fame and fortune.
There are two kinds of stones as everyone knows one which rolls.
Of course I realized there was a measure of danger. Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when I first considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn’t any good reason to refer to it again.
There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.
Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.
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.
Aviation, this young modern giant, exemplifies the possible relationship of women and the creations of science. Although women have not taken full advantage of its use and benefits, air travel is as available to them as to men.
Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.
Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.
I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty.
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn’t be done.