Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.
The most difficult thing is the decision to act!
The more one does the more one can do.
When a great adventure is offered, you don’t refuse it.
No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another.
Aviation records don’t fall until someone is willing to mortgage the present for the future.
The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.
Anticipation, I suppose, sometimes exceeds realization.
If enough of us keep trying, we’ll get someplace.
Trouble in the air is very rare. It is hitting the ground that causes it.
It is the woman who chooses the man who will choose her.
To worry is to add another hazard.
I’m getting housemaid’s knee kneeling here gulping beauty.
Ours is the commencement of a flying age, and I am happy to have popped into existence at a period so interesting.
I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty. That the reasons flyers fly, whether they know it or not, is the aesthetic appeal of flying.
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.
Aviation, this young modern giant, exemplifies the possible relationships of women with the creations of science.
The field was wet, the lane was wet, and the spirits of my mechanic and helper were damp.
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.
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.