Amelia Earhart Quotes
165 Amelia Earhart Quotes
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I believe that a girl should not do what she thinks she should do, but should find out through experience what she wants to do.
Amelia Earhart
It is just as important to give work to women as men, for they have an equal need for mental stimulus and feeling of accomplishment and economic independence.
Amelia Earhart
I advise them all to identify themselves with some form of economic activity.
Amelia Earhart
I am still unsold on marriage. I don’t want anything, all the time… A den… Do you remember in ‘If Winter Comes’ how Mabel was always trying to get her husband a ‘den’ and how he hated it? He said he wasn’t a bear. A den is stuffy. I’d rather live in a tree…
Amelia Earhart
I think I may not ever be able to see marriage except as a cage until I am unfit to work or fly or be active – and of course I wouldn’t be desirable then.
Amelia Earhart
I don’t want to be known always merely as the first woman to fly the Atlantic. Aviation is a great thing, but it cannot fill one’s life completely… I am bringing a message of goodwill and friendship from American to British settlement houses.
Amelia Earhart
May I add my congratulations for your endurance mark, seventeen hours? I am of course, very much interested in what [other] women are doing in the air.
Amelia Earhart
[The education system was based] On sex, not on aptitude.
Amelia Earhart
As a matter of fact, I know a great many boys who should be making pies – and a great many girls who would be better off in manual training. There is no reason why a woman can’t hold any position in aviation providing she can overcome prejudices and show ability.
Amelia Earhart
My interests are usually plural.
Amelia Earhart
Of course everyone wants to know if I’m going to marry George. NO!
Amelia Earhart
If you forbid your children to fly they’ll get a bootleg ride, and a cheap ride is seldom safe.
Amelia Earhart
[Break out of your] Platitudinous sphere.
Amelia Earhart
Today its almost as if the subjects themselves had sex, so firm is the line drawn between what girls and boys study.
Amelia Earhart
Many divorces are caused by the complete dependence of the female.
Amelia Earhart
If we begin to think and respond as capable human beings able to deal with an even enjoy the challenges of life, then we surely will have something more to contribute to marriage than our bodies.
Amelia Earhart
Strong sexual attraction that sometimes masquerades as love.
Amelia Earhart
I am sure you understand I was actuated by desire to serve the industry.
Amelia Earhart
There is little use of my trying to interest others in the presidents cause when my heart is sick with the knowledge tat an industry can be jeopardized and an individual’s career blasted by what seems a personal feud.
Amelia Earhart
I am aligned with President Roosevelt because of his social conscience. Throughout his term of office he has fought against the odds to reduce human misery. He has realized that the obsolescence can affect parts of the machinery of government just as it does the machinery of industry.
Amelia Earhart
When you graduate be sure you go on and have a career, don’t get married as soon as you get out of school.
Amelia Earhart
Please forgive a troublesome female flyer for whom this Howland project is a key attempt.
Amelia Earhart
[On stepping out of the plane after her plane has a tyre blowout and crashes] Something must have gone wrong.
Amelia Earhart
The career of one who indulges in any kind of flying off the beaten path is often complicated.
Amelia Earhart
[On frequent travelling] Because I selected a father who was a railroad man it has been my fortune to roll.
Amelia Earhart
For me the dreams of long ago had come true. Only, back in Atchinson, our imaginary African treks were on camels or elephants. Then airplanes were of another day.
Amelia Earhart
Unfortunately I lived at a time when girls were still girls. Though reading was considered proper, many of my outdoor exercises were not.
Amelia Earhart
Of course I’m going to B.M [Bryn Mawr] [even] if I have to drive a grocery wagon to accumulate the cash.
Amelia Earhart
His little red airplane said something to me as it swished by.
Amelia Earhart
[In 1937 about planes in 1918] Aviation in those days was very limited.
Amelia Earhart
Aviation caught me!
Amelia Earhart
As soon as we left the ground, I knew I myself had to fly, knowing full well I’d die if I didn’t.
Amelia Earhart
For me flying was a sport and not a circus… I appeared in public only on special occasions.
Amelia Earhart
I didn’t crave publicity or anything but it seems to me it would be the greatest fun.
Amelia Earhart
[When enveloped in thick fog and she couldn’t see] I kicked the ship into a tail spin.
Amelia Earhart
No I did not get into MIT, as planned, owing to financial difficulties. No I am not coming to New York, much as, ah, much as I should like doing it. When I leave Boston I think I’ll never go back.
Amelia Earhart
I have crossed the ocean by air.
Amelia Earhart
What do you think of the railroad strike and the abdication of the Tsar? There seems to be no public sentiment back of the unions as there was in the beginning, which will make their demands harder of attainment. They have gone too far…
Amelia Earhart
[To her mother] I have deep twinges of conscience about leaving you to your silent severity (your description). I knew exactly what you were going to have to endure and feel as though I could have alleviated some of the loneliness had I remained faithful to my intentions.
Amelia Earhart
You won’t write any more about me to school dearest Mummy will you?
Amelia Earhart
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