Amelia Earhart - Women Quotes

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If women go to war, along with their men, the men are just going to hate it! If they hate it enough, perhaps they will give up wars altogether.

Amelia Earhart

Now and then, women should do for themselves what men have already done — and occasionally what men have not done — thereby establishing themselves as persons, and perhaps encouraging other women toward greater independence of thought and action. Some such consideration was a contributing reason for my wanting to do what I so much wanted to do.

Amelia Earhart

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.

Letter to her husband George P. Putnam, on the eve of her last flight

Amelia Earhart

I feel that when the history of our times can be written, the supremely significant record will be the physical, psychic, and social changes women have undergone in these exciting decades.

Amelia Earhart

One of my favorite phobias is that girls, especially those whose tastes aren't routine, often don't get a fair break... It has come down through the generations, an inheritance of age-old customs, which produced the corollary that women are bred to timidity.

Amelia Earhart

My ambition is to have this wonderful gift produce practical results for the future of commercial flying and for the women who may want to fly tomorrow's planes.

Amelia Earhart

There is so much women can do in the modern world and should be permitted to do irrespective of their sex.

Amelia Earhart

Probably my greatest satisfaction was to indicate by example now and then, that women can sometimes do things themselves if given the chance.

Amelia Earhart