Holly Morris > Quotes

“Adventure should be part of everyone's life. It is the whole difference between being fully alive and just existing.”
― Holly Morris, Adventure Divas: Searching the Globe for Women Who Are Changing the World

“Why is it that when Robert Redford-cum-Denys Finch Hatton flies away in the golden glow out of Africa, he is pursuing his destiny? And when I walk away I'm just a chick who's scared of commitment and on the run, who's weird for ignoring Glamour magazine's predictions of my eggs drying up? Learning is an underrated form of liberation.”
― Holly Morris, Adventure Divas: Searching the Globe for Women Who Are Changing the World

“If there's one thing the divas have shown it is that to indulge your passions fully is to know yourself completely. Only then can you treat the rest of the world--its people, its ecosystems, its politics-- with provocative wit and compassion.”
― Holly Morris, Adventure Divas: Searching the Globe for Women Who Are Changing the World

“...all good stories must have religion, royalty, sex, and mystery. She figured she'd have a good two hours to read her Harlequin," said my grandmother. "Well, little Suzy walked up to her desk one minute later, said she was finished, and handed her the paper. 'That's impossible,' said the teacher, who looked down and read the story: 'My god, said the Princess, I'm pregnant, whodunit?”
― Holly Morris, Adventure Divas: Searching the Globe for Women Who Are Changing the World

“Your generation was promised a decent husband and maybe a job on the side. Mine," I said with some nostalgia and a hint of disappointment, "mine was promised jet packs.”
― Holly Morris, Adventure Divas: Searching the Globe for Women Who Are Changing the World