So I was sitting here, updating myself on the lovely news of our Country, and I came across an article that caught my eye. It was about how they're starting a new search for Steve Fossett, who went missing last labor day. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080831/ap_on_re_us/fossett_search;_ylt=Au2gYSLhZ81Gs6QeaNReKDys0NUE

As I'm reading, they compared him to Amelia Earhart. In regards to the difficulty of finding any wreckage and the extensive amount spent on searching.

It made me remember, how when I was in high school, I had done a report on Amelia Earhart. I had forgotten how much I admired her. She was well before her time, being one of the Women to power Women's rights! In intent on retaining her independence, she referred to her marriage as a "partnership" with "dual control". I wanted to share some of my favorite quotes of hers, since they always made me stop and go:

"huh, she had this mindset back then, in the 1920's, and look at what she accomplished!" I can have the same mindset, what could I accomplish? We all could have the same mindset, what could we all accomplish?

Quotes by Amelia Earhart:

"...now and then women should do for themselves what men have already done - occasionally what men have not done--thereby establishing themselves as persons, and perhaps encouraging other women toward greater independence of thought and action. Some such consideration was a contributing reason for my wanting to do what I so much wanted to do."

"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."

"No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves."

The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune." "It is far easier to start something than it is to finish it."

"The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship."

"Never interrupt someone doing something you said couldn't be done."

Preparation, I have often said, is rightly two-thirds of any venture."

"The most effective way to do it, is to do it." (soo true!)

This was said about Amelia Earhart, and I couldn't agree more:

"Amelia Earhart came perhaps before her time,...the smiling, confident, capable, yet compassionate human being, is one of which we can all be proud."
-- Walter J. Boyne

Thank you all for taking the time to read this, and to remind yourselves not to take for granted the sacrifices made by so many before us, so that we all could be regarded as equals!