“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
“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
“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
“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
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