“If you find yourself drawn to an event against all logic, go. The universe is telling you something.”
― My Life on the Road
― My Life on the Road
“Long before all these divisions were opened between home and the road, betweens a woman's place and a man's world, humans followed the crops, the seasons, traveling with their families, our companions, animals, our tents. We built campfires and moved from place to place. This way of traveling is still in our cellular memory. Living things have evolved as travelers, Even migrating birds know that nature doesn't demand a choice between nesting and flight.”
― My Life on the Road
― My Life on the Road
“No wonder studies show that women's intellectual self-esteem tends to go down as years of education go up. We have been studying our own absence.”
― My Life on the Road
― My Life on the Road
“If you want people to listen to you, you have to listen to them. If you hope people will change how they live, you have to know how they live. If you want people to see you, you have to sit down with them eye-to-eye.”
― My Life on the Road
― My Life on the Road
“Decisions are best made by the people affected by them.”
― My Life on the Road
― My Life on the Road
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