"People think that fighter pilots aren’t afraid of anything, and yet that’s not true,” she says. “It’s that we’ve lear…"

"“Midwestern stoicism … that ability to just do the work with no fanfare” may be uniquely Wisconsin"

"“Those of us who grow up in a system thinking, ‘All I have do is perform, and my performance will speak for itself’ c…"

"Anything great that you’re going to want to accomplish is going to involve fear and discomfort, and making other peop…"

"I wanted to fly fighters because those pilots were the cream of the crop,” she says. “I thought to myself, Well, it t…"

"I was so stoked. When those assignments came out, based on my performance, I was assigned to fly the F-14 Tomcat,”"

"“When you hear these little comments, whether it’s about your fingernail polish or your hair or what you’re wearing a…"

"“All I wanted desperately was just to blend in and be a fighter pilot, not a female fighter pilot,” she says. “The pl…"

"It was big, it was heavy and it tended to be slightly underpowered,” Lohrenz says. “You’re coming across the back end…"

"“thumb|U.S. Navy Adm. James A. Winnefeld, right, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, speaks to Carey Lohrenz,…"