Amelia Earhart
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"Amelia Mary Earhart" was an American aviation pioneer and author. Earhart was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She received the U.S. Distinguished Flying Cross (United States)/Distinguished Flying Cross for this record. She set many other records, wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences and was instrumental in the formation of Ninety-Nines/The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots. Earhart joined the faculty of the Purdue University College of Technology/Purdue University aviation department in 1935 as a visiting faculty member to counsel women on careers and help inspire others with her love for aviation. She was also a member of the National Woman's Party, and an early supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment.

During an attempt to make a circumnavigational flight of the globe in 1937 in a Purdue-funded Lockheed Model 10 Electra, Earhart List of aerial disappearances/disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean near Howland Island. Fascination with her life, career and disappearance continues to this day.

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Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.

The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.

Flying may not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

As soon as we left the ground I knew I myself had to fly!

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.

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.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others.