Beryl Markham (1902–86) was a British-born Kenyan aviator, adventurer, racehorse trainer and author. During the pioneer days of aviation, she became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic from east to west. She is now primarily remembered as the author of the memoir West with the Night.
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Success breeds confidence.
—Beryl Markham
Topics: Confidence
We fly, but we have not ‘conquered’ the air. Nature presides in all her dignity, permitting us the study and use of such of her forces as we may understand.”
—Beryl Markham
No human pursuit achieves dignity until it can be called work.
—Beryl Markham
Topics: Work
You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.
—Beryl Markham
Topics: Identity, Awareness, Self-Knowledge
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