There’s more to life than being a passenger.

- Amelia Earhart

Words to live by.

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Amelia Earhart (1897-1937), American Aviation Pioneer, Portrait, 1937. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Pilot Amelia Earhart on Lockheed Vega Airplane

(Original Caption) Long Beach, CA: Famed feminine flier -- Amelia Earhart prepares for National Women's Air Derby at Long Beach, California, August 1929. Miss Amelia Earhart, prominent entrant in the National Women's Air Derby which takes off on a cross country speed dash on August 17th from here, as she arrived in her Lockhead monoplane to begin preparations for the gruelling race. (Photo by George Rinhart/Corbis via Getty Images)

Amelia Earhart Leaning on Airplane

(Original Caption) 8/25/1932-Mrs. Amelia Earhart Putnam, first woman to solo across the Atlantic, became the first woman to make a solo nonstop transcontinental flight when she landed at Newark, New Jersey, just a little over nineteen hours after she had left Los Angeles. Photo shows Miss Earhart Putnam leaning on her plane wheel well.

Aviator Amelia Earhart Obliging Her Fans

(Original Caption) Ireland: Earhart signs autograph. Standing beside her plane at Culmore, Londonderry, Ireland, where she landed after completing her remarkable flight across the Atlantic, Mrs. Amelia Earhart Putnam signs autographs for the hundreds which flocked to see "Lady Lindy."

Amelia Earhart Standing on Roof

(Original Caption) The above photo shows Miss Amelia Earhart, copilot of the transatlantic plane, Friendship, atop the roof of the Hyde Park Hotel in London, getting a view.

Aviatrix Amelia Earhart Smiling at Airfield

(Original Caption) Los Angeles, California: As Amelia Earhart Ended Coast-To-Coast Flight. Amelia Earhart, first lady of aviation, is shown immediately after she landed her Lockheed Vega plane at the Los Angeles Municipal Airport, July 2nd, after completing a transcontinental flight from the East.

Miss Earhart failed to qualify, due to delays encountered on her flight. She said it was the most hazardous trip she had ever made. The crowd gave her a tremendous ovation as she brought her ship to the ground, during the second day's events of the National Air Races.

Amelia Earhart's Lockheed Electra plane in a Wheeler Field hangar being tuned for her attempted flight around the world, March 19, 1937.

Amelia Earhart sits on the running board of a Standard Oil fueling truck, at Wheeler Field, 1935.

Amelia Earhart, left, and her navigator, Fred Noonan, right, pose beside their plane at Lae, New Guinea in 1937. This photo, taken with a gold miner named Jacobs, shows them just before they took off in a flight to Howland Island. They disappeared somewhere in the Pacific on July 2.

Amelia Earhart's plane was harnessed up by specially constructed slings to lift it from the deck of the Lurline, December 27, 1934.      

Amelia Earhart's first flight at East Boston Airport after being the first woman to fly the Atlantic in the Fokker Friendship plane by Leslie Jones, 1929

Amelia Earhart in Suriname

Map of Amelia Earhart’s equatorial flight around the world

Amelia Earhart, center, is accompanied by her husband, George Putnam, left, and her technical adviser, Paul Mantz, as they arrived in her plane from Salt Lake City on May 22, 1936, to Los Angeles.

Miss Amelia Earhart and Mayor Edward Larkin of Medford, MA leaving the Ritz-Carlton Hotel by Leslie Jones, 1928

Amelia Earhart and George Palmer Putnam, 1930s