Harriet Quimby Quotes

• If a woman wants to fly, first of all she must, of course, abandon skirts and don a knickerbocker uniform.

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  Women, Clothes, Flying

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• I was annoyed from the start by the attitude of doubt by the spectators that I would never really make the flight. This attitude made me more determined than ever to succeed.

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  Attitude, Women, Annoyed

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• There is no reason why the aeroplane should not open up a fruitful occupation for women.

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  Occupation, Reason Why, Should

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• The men flyers have given out the impression that aeroplaning is very perilous work, something that an ordinary mortal should not dream of attempting. But when I saw how easily the man flyers manipulated their machines I said I could fly.

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  Dream, Women, Saws

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• Everyone asks me 'how it feels to fly.' It feels like riding in a high powered automobile, minus bumping over the rough roads, continually signaling to clear the way and keeping a watchful on the speedometer to see that you do not exceed the speed limit and provoke the wrath of the bicycle policeman or the covetous constable.

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  Wrath, Riding, Way

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• I saw at once that I had only to rise in my machine, fix my eyes upon the castle, fly over it and speed directly across to the French coast. It seemed so easy that it looked like a cross-country flight. I am glad I thought so and felt so.

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  Country, Eye, Castles

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• The aeroplane should open a fruitful occupation for women. I see no reason they cannot realize handsome incomes by carrying passengers between adjacent towns, from parcel delivery, taking photographs or conducting schools of flying.

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  Women, School, Flying

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