“Evolution intended us to be travelers….Settlement for any length of time, in cave or castle, has at best been…a drop in the ocean of evolutionary time.” —Bruce Chatwin, ANATOMY OF RESTLESSNESS”
― My Life on the Road
― My Life on the Road
“I'm also now immune to politicians who say, "I've traveled the length and breadth of this great land, and I know..." I've traveled more than any of them, and I don't know.”
― 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
“Perhaps the most revolutionary act for a woman will be a self-willed journey—and to be welcomed when she comes home.”
― My Life on the Road
― My Life on the Road
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