“The two important things that I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavour is taking the first step, making the first decision.”
― Tracks
― Tracks
“I suppose we can all be prone at times to trapping certain countries in their distance, exotic pasts, ignoring their presents.”
― Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race
― Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race
“Oh, living is so uncomfortable. Everything presses in: the body demands, the spirit never ceases, living is like being weary but being unable to sleep–living is upsetting. You can’t walk around naked, either in body or in spirit.”
― The Stream of Life
― The Stream of Life
“I was forced to acknowledge too late, much too late, that I too had loved, that I was capable of suffering, and that I was human after all.”
― I Who Have Never Known Men
― I Who Have Never Known Men
“How was she to tie herself to a man without permitting him to imprison her? And was there some means of acquiring things without those things possessing her?”
― Near to the Wild Heart
― Near to the Wild Heart
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