Unsung women heroes are everywhere; not just in aviation. But women leaders in aviation gave all women the courage to dream.
“How important it is to recognize and celebrate our heroes and
she-roes.” -- Maya Angelou
she-roes.” -- Maya Angelou
1913 The Courage of the Commonplace. "A hardworking girl on a farm sacrifices everything to help out, including her chance to escape to a better life at college". Image from: A Vitagraph film.
Science teacher 1920's. Image from: National Photo Company.
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1930's homemaker in kitchen. Image from: Library of Congress
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"In our world of big names, curiously, our true heroes tend to be anonymous. In this life of illusion and quasi-illusion, the person of solid virtues who can be admired for something more substantial than his well-knownness often proves to be the unsung hero: the teacher, the nurse, the mother, the honest cop, the hard worker at lonely, underpaid, unglamorous, unpublicized jobs." -Daniel J. Boorstin
Image by Leslie Shope
"The assumption that men came home and went straight back to work was a naïve one. Many men never came home. And many returned with serious injuries, illnesses or psychological traumas that prevented them from resuming their "breadwinning" duties. As New York State considered cutting off funding for child care, a group of mothers and children protested in Brooklyn, arguing that the war had changed life at home permanently and that there was still a need for child care."- Leslie Shope