Amelia Earhart – Flying Outside of the Boundaries
What fascinates you about Amelia Earhart?
I love that if I see a picture of her, I can’t help but see strength, independence and intelligence. Her image, without any accompanying words or music, inspires the question:
What is it you don’t think a woman can do?
Earhart referred to her marriage as a “partnership” with “dual control.” In a letter written to her husband and hand delivered to him on the day of the wedding, she wrote, “I want you to understand I shall not hold you to any midaevil code of faithfulness to me nor shall I consider myself bound to you similarly.” Amelia’s ideas on marriage were liberal for the time as she believed in equal responsibilities for both “breadwinners” and pointedly kept her own name rather than being referred to as Mrs. Putnam.
If you don’t think what she did mattered, then name any of the three men pictured beside her below.
Photo by Edward Steichen.
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If you search on Wikipedia using only her last name “Earhart,” she is the only entry that comes up.
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Amelia was one of a kind and far ahead of her time. One of the historical figures I would love to meet if I could.
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Iam doing a project on amelia earhart and these pictures are great
great pictures it shows that she is an adventurous person.
I believe that Amelia and her friend Elanor Rosevelt is a very great story about how they went for a ride that I am reading this week it is in a fourth grade reading book and I am reading it now and it is an inspiring sensation to be reading this story.
I remember many years ago my dad talking of Amelia as he was old enough to remember when her plane went missing and nothing was ever recovered. Its a shame at some time this couldn’t be closed but by this date and time highly unlikely.
The only thing I have ever though was in spite of things that went wrong she was driver in her quest to accomplish and if her life had to come to an end she was doing what she enjoyed most, I dont think you can top that. This is a great site, thank you.
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OneMoreOption: Thank you Orin for you kind words and sentiments.
Hi, Can you please tell me where i can get a pic of her in that white hat..
i thought these pics were great for my project at school
Spectacularly photogenic aviatrix! Her charisma bursts out of the photos. She had a leg up on other aviatrices of the time because she was backed by her hubby’s fortune and media resources (he was head of Putnam, a large publishing firm). Flying wasn’t a cheap vocation/avocation.
Amelia was brave but foolhardy, and there were better female pilots than her. Still, she did a lot for aviation and women in general.
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omo: It’s probably generally foolish to make sweeping criticisms of a person in one sentence. Amelia was an independent spirit, a female pilot, attempting to break distance records, and likely participating in espionage missions – all dangerous choices and actions during the early days of aviation and under that culture’s social expectations. I would not characterize her as foolhardy. Amelia’s actions defined her spirit. And if you type in “Amelia” in a Wikipedia or Google search cell, the most common “auto complete” is Earhart. Her choices and actions amounted to something great and defining in the human spirit, something most of us aspire toward.
I’m 63 years old and have studied the life pf Amelia since I was 16. There was nothing foolhardy about her. She knew exactually what she was doing. She did it because she wanted to do it. What other reason is better than that!
i am doing a project on amelia earhart. this is just what i needed
Sondra Ray looks a lot like her particularly in photo #2
Amelia I wish I can meet you. I’m doing a project and I picked you. I really want to know if you died over the Pacific Ocean. Or if you lived with Fred.Isaw the movie Amelia and I loved it. I felt bad for your husband then I started to cry. I’m your huge fan love kristen.
As a male who has an interest in aviation I have had a fascination with Amelia for many years There is a magnetic quality about her for her many accomplishments, but as well for her photogenic qualities. She was a lovely woman, and I wish we might someday know with certainty, the circumstances surrounding her disappearance.
Hi,
I’ve been writing a novel about Amelia for a number of years. Always looking for others interested/obsessed with her. She was a truly independent spirit. As for the gripes about her being a bad pilot, please! She did in fact break world records and fly solo across the Atlantic. Many others crashed and died.
She obviously was skillful, and I believe completely in control of her own image.
I am doing a history subject (as part of a teaching degree) and we have to dress up for a workshop as a historical figure and I am going as Amelia. What a woman. I love her unclassical, almost boyish looks, and her understated style of dress. Just need to find a flying helmet…..
To be a woman in her time, to over come obstacles, to have the dream and the passion, is quite extraordinary!
I do love her look, her individual style and her eyes.
Its all there in her eyes.
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