Amelia Earhart - Last Flight (1937)

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

Amelia Earhart

Anticipation, I suppose, sometimes exceeds realization.

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

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The time to worry is three months before a flight. Decide then whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying. To worry is to add another hazard. It retards reactions, makes one unfit.... Hamlet would have been a bad aviator. He worried too much.

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In my life I had come to realize that when things were going very well indeed it was just the time to anticipate trouble. And, conversely, I learned from pleasant experience that at the most despairing crisis, when all looked sour beyond words, some delightful "break" was apt to lurk just around the corner.

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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

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.

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.

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