Harriet Quimby famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Want #Uniforms #Firsts
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.
-- Harriet Quimby

#Wrath #Way #Limits
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.
-- Harriet Quimby

#Attitude #Annoyed #Doubt
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.
-- Harriet Quimby

#Dream #Men #Saws
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.
-- Harriet Quimby

#School #Flying #Occupation
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.
-- Harriet Quimby

#Country #Eye #Castles
There is no reason why the aeroplane should not open up a fruitful occupation for women.
-- Harriet Quimby

#Occupation #Reason #Should

I want people to remember me as a full on entertainer and a good person.
Our society covers these problems with a veil. All I want is an open discussion
I have good legs, so I prefer my skirt lengths and my high heels. It's like my uniform.
Our men and women in uniform deserve the best intelligence possible to help them protect America.
One of the first signs of a Spirit-filled life is enthusiasm!
This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.
It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.
I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.
If at first you don't succeed/You can dust it off and try again/Dust yourself off and try again.
The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him.

Harriet Quimby famous quotes

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