Anne Morrow Lindbergh(1906-2001)

The year she married aviator Charles A. Lindbergh, she piloted her first solo flight and was the first American woman ever to earn a glider pilot's license. she and Charles explored and charted air routes between continents during the 1930s. The Lindberghs were the first to fly from Africa to South America, and explored polar air routes from North America to Asia and Europe.

On friendship: One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay "in kind" somewhere else in life.