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AMELIA EARHART
The following are Quotes by and about Amelia Earhart
(from http://www.ameliaearhart.com/about/quotes.html)
Read them bearing in mind what you read in the textbook about
her, and the information you searched in the internet.
Choose two of the quotes and explain what they mean to you.
Agree or disagree with your classmate’s explanations, and add as
many ideas as you can. (No more than 3 comments per quote).
1. "After midnight the moon set and I was alone with the stars. I
have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty, and I need
no other flight to convince me that the reason flyers fly, whether they
know it or not, is the aesthetic appeal of flying."
2. “Anticipation, I suppose, sometimes exceeds realization.”
3. "Flying may not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the
price."
4. "Not much more than a month ago I was on the other shore of the
Pacific, looking westward. This evening, I looked eastward over the
Pacific. In those fast-moving days which have intervened, the whole
width of the world has passed behind us -except this broad ocean. I
shall be glad when we have the hazards of its navigation behind us."
-- Amelia Earhart, several days before she left for Howland Island and
disappeared
5. "...decide...whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is,
stop worrying...."
6. "I lay no claim to advancing scientific data other than advancing
flying knowledge. I can oly say that I do it because I want to."
7. "Worry retards reaction and makes clear-cut decisions impossible."
8. "The field was wet, the lane was wet and the spirits of my mechanic
and helper were damp."
9. "The stars seemed near enough to touch and never before have I seen
so many. I always believed the lure of flying is the lure of beauty, but I
was sure of it that night."
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10. "Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn
incense."
11. "The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely
tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to
do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the
process is its own reward."
12. "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."
13. "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."
14. "Preparation, I have often said, is rightly two-thirds of any venture."
15. “The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win
fame and fortune." "It is far easier to start something than it is to finish
it."
16. “Anticipation, I suppose, sometimes exceeds realization.”
17. "Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace. The soul
that knows it not, knows no release from little things."
18. "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."
19. “The soul’s dominion? Each time we make a choice, we pay with
courage to behold restless day and count it fair.”
20. "Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail,
their failure must be but a challenge to others."
21. "[Women] must pay for everything.... They do get more glory than
men for comparable feats. But, also, women get more notoriety when
they crash."
22. "...now and then women should do for themselves what men have
already done - occasionally what men have not done--thereby
establishing themselves as persons, and perhaps encouraging other
women toward greater independence of thought and action. Some such
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consideration was a contributing reason for my wanting to do what I so
much wanted to do."
23. "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."
24. "Never interrupt someone doing something you said couldn't be
done."
25. "No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to
another. Good example is followed. 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."
26. "Adventure is worthwhile in itself."
27. "Never do things others can do and will do, if there are things others
cannot do or will not do."
28. "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."
29. "The most effective way to do it, is to do it."
Quotes about Amelia Earhart
30. "Being men and being engaged in a highly essential phase of the
serious business of air transportation, they [airline mechanics] all
naturally had preconceived notions about a woman pilot bent on a
'stunt' flight - not very favorable notions either. It was, undoubtedly,
something of a shock to discover that the 'gal' with whom they had to
deal not only was an exceptionally pleasant human being who 'knew her
stuff,' but that she knew exactly what she wanted done, and had sense
enough to let them alone while they did it. There was an almost audible
clatter of chips falling off sceptical masculine shoulders."
C.B. Allen, New York Herald Tribune
31. "Amelia is a grand person for such a trip. She is the only woman
flyer I would care to make such an expedition with. Because in addition
to being a fine companion and pilot, she can take hardship as well as a
man-and work like one."
Fred Noonan, Amelia's navigator for the around-the-world flight
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32. "Amelia Earhart came perhaps before her time,...the smiling,
confident, capable, yet compassionate human being, is one of which we
can all be proud."
Walter J. Boyne
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Fast Facts
Birth Name: Amelia Mary Earhart
Born: July 24, 1897
Birthplace: Atchison, Kansas
Died: July 2, 1937, en route from Lae, New Guinea to Howland
Island
Married: February 7, 1931, to George Putnam
* Despite having to attend six different high schools, she was
able to graduate on time.
* Earhart was called "Lady Lindy" because her slim build and
facial features resembled that of Charles Lindbergh.
* Earhart refused to don typical flying gear -she wore a suit or
dress instead of the "high-bread aviation togs," a close-fitting hat
instead of a helmet, didn't put on her goggles until she taxied to
the end of the field and removed them immediately upon landing.
* She developed a friendship with Eleanor Roosevelt, who
wanted to learn how to fly. Earhart had planned to teach her, for
which the First Lady even got her student permit.
* Earhart met Orville Wright at the Franklin Institute in
Philadelphia in 1937, the same year she disappeared.
* Earhart had such an impression on public that people often
wrote and told her about naming babies, lakes and even homing
pigeons "Amelia."
* The United States government spent $4 million looking for
Earhart, which made it the most costly and intensive air and sea
search in history at that time.
* She was the first woman to receive a pilot's license from the
FAI.
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