“There’s magic in being seen by people who understand—it gives you permission to keep going.”
"Gender is not what people look like to other people; it is what we know ourselves to be. No one else should be able to tell you who you are; that’s for you to decide…Man and woman are two of many – stars in a constellation that do not compete but amplify one another’s shine."
- Alok Vaid Menon
Self-awareness
"We want a world where boys can feel, girls can lead, and the rest of us can not only exist but thrive."
- Alok Vaid Menon
Vision
"Love is a rebellion. As an act of resistance against everything that tries to keep us apart."
- Alok Vaid Menon
Bravery
"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return."
- Leonardo DaVinci
Inspiration
"Man must rise above the Earth—to the top of the atmosphere and beyond—for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives."
- Socrates
Inspiration
"The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who, in their grueling travels across trackless lands in prehistoric times, looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space, at full speed, above all obstacles, on the infinite highway of the air."
- Wilbur Wright
Inspiration
"Sometimes, flying feels too God-like to be attained by man. Sometimes, the world from above seems too beautiful, too wonderful, too distant for human eyes to see."
- Charles A. Lindbergh
Inspiration
"I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Inspiration