Top 11 Quotes About Harriet Quimby
#1. The U.S. prosecution service is eating at the soul of the American republic. It is an absolute danger to everyone.
Conrad Black
#2. Elizabeth had followed her heart, and no one ever regrets that.
Anna Godbersen
#3. 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
#4. People don't know the consolations of being unsuccessful ... If I had been successful I should have had no peace or time.
Rumer Godden
#5. 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
#6. There is no reason why the aeroplane should not open up a fruitful occupation for women.
Harriet Quimby
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. I don't consider myself paranoid at all. I think I see things exactly as they are.
Don DeLillo
#10. If a woman wants to fly, first of all she must, of course, abandon skirts and don a knickerbocker uniform.
Harriet Quimby
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