I can cure your men of walking off the [flight] program. Let's put on the girls.

- Jacqueline Cochran

It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death.

- Jacqueline Cochran

I wanted to go higher than Rockefeller Center, which was being erected across the street from Saks Fifth Avenue and was going to cut off my view of t…

- Jacqueline Cochran

And to live without risk for me would have been tantamount to death.

- Jacqueline Cochran

I might have been born in a hovel, but I determined to travel with the wind and the stars.

- Jacqueline Cochran

[A difficult childhood gave me] a kind of cocky confidence. ... I could never have so little that I hadn't had less. It took away my fear.

- Jacqueline Cochran

I'd have given my right eye to be an astronaut.

- Jacqueline Cochran

Capacity never lacks opportunity. It cannot remain undiscovered because it is sought by too many anxious to use it.

- Jacqueline Cochran

Earthbound souls know only the underside of the atmosphere in which they live . . . but go higher - above the dust and water vapor - and the sky turn…

- Jacqueline Cochran