Amelia Earhart Quotes

1897–1939, American Aviator, Author · Wikipedia · Wikidata
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“Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.”
VerifiedPoetry written around the time of the breaking of her "tenuous engagement" to Samuel Chapman (c. 1928), published in Amelia, My Courageous Sister : Biography of Amelia Earhart (1987) by Muriel Earhart Morrissey and Carol L. Osborne, p. 74; also in Amelia : A Life of the Aviation Legend (1999) · evidenceDetails & citeCourage
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“Adventure is worthwhile.”
Adventure
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“The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.”
Women
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“Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others.”
Men and Women
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“Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, But, they also get more notoriety when they crash.”
Airplane and Aviation
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“The effect of having other interests beyond those domestic works well. 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.”
Recreation
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