"There is a decided prejudice on the part of the general public against being piloted by a woman, and as great an aversion, partially because of this, by executives of those companies whose activities require employing pilots."

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Source : Louise Thaden (1973). “High, Wide and Frightened”, p.99, University of Arkansas Press

Louise Thaden

#Prejudice Quotes #Aversion Quotes #Pilots Quotes

“Family makes a house a home.”
“I come from a family of losers, and I've rejected my family as something I don't want to be like.”
“When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.”
“I lost quite a bit of skin on the left side of my body and sustained some deep cuts in my hand and around my knee, but the doctors were able to stitch it all back together. Luckily I didn't hurt my shoulder but I'm now at the point where the only thing on my body which isn't hurting is my bad shoulder.”
“Gorilla tourism is vital to Rwanda's economy: It's the third highest source of income.”
“My life isnâ€™t theories and formulae. Itâ€™s part instinct, part common sense. Logic is as good a word as any, and Iâ€™ve absorbed what logic I have from everything and everyoneâ€¦ from my mother, from training as a ballet dancer, from Vogue magazine, from the laws of life and health and nature.”
“When nature made the blue-bird she wished to propitiate both the sky and the earth, so she gave him the color of the one on his back and the hue of the other on his breast.”
“Call it no more free-will, but slavish lust; free to evil, but free from good, till regenerating grace loosens the bands of wickedness.”

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