Demeaning Quote by Wally Schirra

I think women make better pilots.

— Zoey Tur

“many assumed that female pilots could not achieve what male pilots achieved.”

— Jacob Smith

Any girl who has flown at all grows used to the prejudice of most men pilots who will trot out any number of reasons…

— Cornelia Fort

Ultimately, a number of people I talked to were like, 'I would just love the day when I can be a pilot, and not…

— Monica Barbaro

Every pilot thinks they're the best pilot in the world. I think I'm the best pilot.

— Gordon Bethune

When you're doing a pilot, you don't know where it will end up, and then you're being put up with the best of the…

— Lauren Ash

I think every test pilot's dream is to be on the start of something that's brand new.

— Sunita Williams

There is a decided prejudice on the part of the general public against being piloted by a woman, and as great an aversion, partially…

— Louise Thaden

I've seen the military aviation community be rather progressive with that sort of thing; they really defer to women pilots as much as their…

— Monica Barbaro

The happily married man with a large family is the test pilot for me.

— Nevil Shute

A male pilot is a confused soul who talks about women when he's flying, and about flying when he's with a woman.

— Anonymous

Two things seemed pretty apparent to me. One was that in order to be a pilot a man had to learn more than any…

— Mark Twain