Amelia Earhart Short Quotes

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Anticipation, I suppose, sometimes exceeds realization.

Amelia Earhart

Those can appreciate rewards most who have helped create.

Amelia Earhart

It is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.

Amelia Earhart

Preparation, I have often said, is rightly two-thirds of any venture.

Amelia Earhart

Trouble in the air is very rare. It is hitting the ground that causes it.

Amelia Earhart

Given a little power over another, little natures swell to hideous proportions.

Amelia Earhart

Flying might not be all plain sailing,... but the fun of it is worth the price.

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Hooray for the last grand adventure! I wish I had won but it was worthwhile anyway.

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

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The soul's dominion? Each time we make a choice, we pay with courage to behold restless day and count it fair.

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Ours is the commencement of a flying age, and I am happy to have popped into existence at a period so interesting.

Amelia Earhart

It was a startling takeoff as we rose, reminiscent of the first symptom of a flat spin. Camels should have shock absorbers.

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I want you to understand I shall not hold you to any midaevil code of faithfulness to me nor shall I consider myself bound to you similarly.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.

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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

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Sex has been used much too long as a subterfuge by the inefficient woman who likes to make herself and others believe that it is not her incapability, but her womanhood, which is holding her back.

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Ours is a reasonable and contented partnership; my husband with his solo jobs, and I with mine; but the system of dual control works satisfactorily and our work and our play is a great deal together.

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