“Men will be men," Maureen told me when I wondered aloud where my father went in the evenings. "Don't complain," she advised. "That's how women find their freedom. When there's no one else at home.”
― The Museum of Extraordinary Things
― The Museum of Extraordinary Things
“I can go on the road - because I can come home. I come home - because I'm free to leave. Each way of being is more valued in the presence of the other.”
― My Life on the Road
― My Life on the Road
“hate generalizes, love specifies”
― My Life on the Road
― My Life on the Road
“We must not only vote but fight to vote. The voting booth really is the one place on earth where the least powerful equal the powerful. p176”
― My Life on the Road
― My Life on the Road
“When people ask me why I still have hope and energy after all these years, I always say: Because I travel.”
― My Life on the Road
― My Life on the Road
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