Fly Girls Quotes

“She would be, she said, in the rustling of the leaves on the trees and the lazy drift of the clouds across the sky. She would be in the whispers on the wind, in the great blue horizon, and in the falling rain. “The hues of sunset will be a part of me,” Thaden said, “and the smell of flowers in the air. Contrails cut across God’s heavens will be the paths along which I walk—the drifting snowflakes, my caress—the morning sun, my confidence.” All her children had to do, she said, was close their eyes, and they would find her. They would feel her presence in the air.”
― Keith O'Brien, Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History

“If you will tell me why, or how, people fall in love, I will tell you why, or how, I happened to take up aviation. – louise thaden, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette,”
― Keith O'Brien, Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History

“To fly that plane,” Jimmy Doolittle once said, “is exactly like the task of balancing an ice cream cone on the tip of one’s finger.”
― Keith O'Brien, Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History

“Others found jobs but got paid far less than men—a fact not lost on cash-strapped employers. It was, one employer said, the only real reason to hire women: “They produce more and demand less.”
― Keith O'Brien, Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History

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― Keith O'Brien, Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History

“If she came off as too weak, she might be denied the trip. If she came off as too strong, too beautiful—or, in her words, “too fascinating”—she might lose on that count too,”
― Keith O'Brien, Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History