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For most American women, culture has defined anything beyond walls and social protections as wild and dangerous.
“Women’s accounts of outdoor adventures repeatedly show how men and women can be in the same place while still in different worlds.”
― When Everything Beyond the Walls Is Wild: Being a Woman Outdoors in America
― When Everything Beyond the Walls Is Wild: Being a Woman Outdoors in America
“these were the experiences I wanted my son to remember. The mother I wanted him to know. The mother I wanted to be.”
― When Everything Beyond the Walls Is Wild: Being a Woman Outdoors in America
― When Everything Beyond the Walls Is Wild: Being a Woman Outdoors in America
“I want that freedom to move around outdoors, to do so without always feeling watched, threatened, restricted, or accountable to someone. To not be a babe—innocent or lusty. To just be in the woods.”
― When Everything Beyond the Walls Is Wild: Being a Woman Outdoors in America
― When Everything Beyond the Walls Is Wild: Being a Woman Outdoors in America
“Had he not been so obsessed with his own heart, perhaps he would have noticed his father’s was failing.”
― Where the Crawdads Sing
― Where the Crawdads Sing
“But by the time you get far enough north to the coastal county marked in gray on the map—Washington County—you’re universally acknowledged to have arrived Downeast.”
― Downeast: Five Maine Girls and the Unseen Story of Rural America
― Downeast: Five Maine Girls and the Unseen Story of Rural America
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