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.

Human crises have a way of happening at inconvenient times.

Worry retards reaction and makes clear-cut decisions impossible.

In soloing - as in other activities - it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.

You can do anything you decide to do.

Anticipation, I suppose, sometimes exceeds realization.

One of my favorite phobias is that girls, especially those whose tastes aren't routine, often don't get a fair break... It has come down through the generations, an inheritance of age-old customs, which produced the corollary that women are bred to timidity.