If it is a woman's function to give, she must be replenished, too.

Flying was a very tangible freedom. In those days, it was beauty, adventure, discovery - the epitome of breaking into new worlds.

For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.

there is no aristocracy of grief. Grief is a great leveler.

The fundamental magic of flying, a miracle that has nothing to do with any of its practical purposes - purposes of speed, accessibility, and convenience - and will not change as they change.

Perhaps both men and women in America may hunger, in our material, outward, active, masculine culture, for the supposedly feminine qualities of heart, mind and spirit — qualities which are actually neither masculine nor feminine, but simply human qualities that have been neglected.

Ideally, both members of a couple in love free each other to new and different worlds.