It is the woman who chooses the man who will choose her.

In soloing -- as in other activities -- it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

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.

As soon as we left the ground, I knew I had to fly.

Never interrupt someone doing something you said couldn't be done.

Among all the marvels of modern invention, that with which I am most concerned is, of course, air transportation. Flying is perhaps the most dramatic of recent scientific attainment. In the brief span of thirty-odd years, the world has seen an inventor's dream first materialized by the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk become an everyday actuality.

Everyone has oceans to fly, if they have the heart to do it. Is it reckless? Maybe. But what do dreams know of boundaries?

Anticipation, I suppose, sometimes exceeds realization.

How can Life grant us boon of living, compensateFor dull grey ugliness and pregnant hateUnless we dareThe soul's dominion? Each time we make a choice, we payWith courage to behold the resistless day,And count it fair.

I lay no claim to advancing scientific data other than advancing flying knowledge. I can only say that I do it because I want to.

Trouble in the air is very rare. It is hitting the ground that causes it.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act!

Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.

Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.

Aviation offered such fun as crossing the continent in planes large and small, trying the whirling rotors of an autogiro, making record flights. With these activities came opportunity to know women everywhere who shared my conviction that there is so much women can do in the modern world and should be permitted to do irrespective of their sex.

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.

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.

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.

The most effective way to do it, is to just do it.