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I understood. I was a girl-a "nervous lady." I might jump out. There had to be somebody on hand to grab my ankle as I went over. It was no use to explain I had seen aeroplanes before and wasn't excitable. I was not to be permitted to go alone in the front cockpit.

— Amelia Earhart

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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.

Anticipation, I suppose, sometimes exceeds realization.

Last Flight (1937)

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

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.

Soaring Wings : A Biography of Amelia Earhart (1939)

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

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