Zitat des Tages von Amelia Earhart:
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.
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.
Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.
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.
Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.
Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
In soloing - as in other activities - it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.
There are two kinds of stones, as everyone knows, one of which rolls.
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 appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.
Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
I have often been asked what I think about at the moment of take-off. Of course, no pilot sits and feels his pulse as he flies. He has to be part of the machine. If he thinks of anything but the task in hand, then trouble is probably just around the corner.