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"It's difficult to do that internally, because you're flying five, six hours."

"Boot Camp was great and very interesting. You got to use live rounds of ammunition and got to do a lot of crawling around with live rounds flying around you, so you really had to learn to keep your ass down - everything down for that matter."

"As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me."

"I think getting drunk is the key to flying comfortably. A couple of bloody marys or several glasses of champagne, and suddenly it's like you're on a roller coaster."

"I was nicknamed Skeeter in Little League because I was small and fast, like a mosquito flying across the outfield."

"The transformation scene, where man is becoming insect and insect has become at least man and beyond that - a flying, godlike, shimmering, diaphanous, beautiful creature."
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"Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn't any good reason to refer to it."

"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."

"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward."

"Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash."

"Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others."
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