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“Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things.”

 “Never interrupt someone doing something you said could never be done.”

“The most effective way to do it, is to do it.”

“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity…”

“Adventure is worthwhile in itself.”

– All quotes from Amelia Earhart

First of all, isn’t Aviatrix just about the sexiest occupation name ever? This queen of flying in the sky was an independent thinker, excellent writer as well as a brave pioneer who attempted feats that no woman had tried ever before.

Earhart was the first aviatrix to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean in 1928, and the first woman to fly nonstop coast to coast across the U.S.  She was the 16th woman to be issued a pilot’s license in the world. (#6017) In addition to her flying achievements she was also a best-selling author.

She had quite the liberal mindset about marriage. George P. Putnam proposed marriage six times until she finally agreed. She did not choose to be called Mrs. Putnam and kept her name. She referred to the marriage as a “partnership” with “dual control”.  She wrote him a letter that she gave him on their wedding day on February 7, 1931, below. She requested a mutually agreed upon open relationship and required personal space alone as she needed it. She was willing to try marriage for a year and told him she would leave if she wasn’t happy at the end of the year.

What an excellent example in owning her own body and desires and making hard but honest requests about what she thought she needed to be happy, and in the 1930s! Incredible!

“Dear GPP
There are some things which should be writ before we are married — things we have talked over before — most of them.
You must know again my reluctance to marry, my feeling that I shatter thereby chances in work which means most to me. I feel the move just now as foolish as anything I could do. I know there may be compensations but have no heart to look ahead.
On our life together I want you to understand I shall not hold you to any midaevil code of faithfulness to me nor shall I consider myself bound to you similarly. If we can be honest I think the difficulties which arise may best be avoided should you or I become interested deeply (or in passing) in anyone else.
Please let us not interfere with the others’ work or play, nor let the world see our private joys or disagreements. In this connection I may have to keep some place where I can go to be myself, now and then, for I cannot guarantee to endure at all times the confinements of even an attractive cage.
I must exact a cruel promise and that is you will let me go in a year if we find no happiness together.
I will try to do my best in every way and give you that part of me you know and seem to want.
A.E.” [sic]

This letter is found within the book: Letters from Amelia: An Intimate Portrait of Amelia Earhart