Ioanna

“Do the wise thing and the kind thing too, and make the best of us and not the worst.”
― Charles Dickens, Hard Times

“As Freya Stark herself had put it: ‘To be treated with consideration is, in the case of female travellers, too often synonymous with being prevented from doing what one wants.”
― Lois Pryce, Revolutionary Ride: On the Road to Shiraz, the Heart of Iran

“Defeat goes deeper into the human soul than victory. To be in someone else's power is a conscious experience which induces doubts about the ordering of the universe, while those who have power can forget it, or can assume that it is part of the natural order of things, and invent or adopt ideas which justify they possession of it.”
― Albert Hourani, A History of the Arab Peoples

“I have no reason to go, except that I have never been, and knowledge is better than ignorance. What better reason could there be for travelling?”
― Freya Stark, A Winter in Arabia