Quotes by Amelia Earhart

Explore 31 approved quotes attributed to Amelia Earhart.

About Amelia Earhart

Portrait of Amelia Earhart
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American aviation pioneer · 1897 – 1939

Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly the Atlantic solo, in 1932, and used the fame that followed to argue that women should be allowed to do anything men were doing badly. She wrote, lectured, designed practical flying clothes, and helped found an organisation for women pilots. In 1937 she disappeared over the Pacific attempting to circumnavigate the globe. Her lines about courage read as unsentimental instructions from someone who had already calculated the odds and gone anyway.

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