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“Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.
— Amelia Earhart
Aviator
Last Flight (1937), Letter to her husband George P. Putnam, on the eve of her last flight
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