"Other women who flew were women of independent means. But I had to do something with it."

"As a four-year-old, my mother told me I was climbing the fence, jumping off and calling myself an 'eppyplane' … I bou…"

"...Australia like New Zealand is still very much 'a man's country"

"I find it hard to believe that I do not have to go on somewhere else... but there doesn't seem anywhere else to go, u…"

"How bitter-sweet it all was, I reflected — flying about the world, visiting these great cities, meeting many people, …"

"the intoxicating drug of speed, and freedom to roam the earth."

"If I go down in the sea...no one must fly out to look for me."

"But England to Naples in a day is no mean feat for any man, let alone a girl without any previous long-distance exper…"

"...my only company the roar of the engine as I winged low over the ocean like a solitary bird... I might have been th…"

"There have been times when the loneliness has been so intense that I have longed for the sound of a human voice or th…"