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Jeannette Piccard , née le 5 janvier 1895 à Chicago et morte le 17 mai 1981 à Minneapolis, est une aéronaute. Wikipedia  

✵ 5. janvier 1895 – 17. mai 1981
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Jeannette Piccard: Citations en anglais

“There are many reasons, some of them so deep-seated emotionally as to be very difficult of expression. Possibly the simplest explanation is that we started along this road … and I cannot stop until I have won.”

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Her reason for flying as explained to her father
Quoted in [Shayler, David J. and Moule, Ian A., Women in Space — Following Valentina, Springer-Praxis, 2005, 978-1-84628-078-8, 10.1007/1-84628-078-8_1, http://www.springerlink.com/content/v110844356183tq8/]

“Sonny, I'm old enough to have changed your nappies.”

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To John Allin, presiding bishop, Episcopal Church of the United States, who had asked the Philadelphia Eleven not to proceed with their ordination as priests.
Quoted in [Goldman, Ari L., Religion Notes, The New York Times, 30 July 1994, http://select.nytimes.com/search/restricted/article?res=F30813F63C5D0C738FDDAE0894DC494D81]

“If we do not add something to the knowledge of cosmic rays by our trip to the stratosphere this summer, we had better not go. We had better stay on the ground, be hewers of wood and drawers of water.”

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Quoted in [Oakes, Claudia M., United States Women in Aviation: 1930-1939, Smithsonian Studies in Air and Space, 1985, http://www.sil.si.edu/smithsoniancontributions/AirSpace/text/SSAS-0006.txt]

“When you fly a balloon you don’t file a flight plan; you go where the wind goes. You feel like part of the air. You almost feel like part of eternity, and you just float along.”

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Quoted in [Sorenson, Paul, Looking Back..., AEM Update, University of Minnesota Institute of Technology, 1998-1999, http://www.aem.umn.edu/info/update/1998-99/Looking.html]