Ally Rose

“Both women and nature are protected, restricted, objectified, idealized, and made passive.”
― Lilace Mellin Guignard, When Everything Beyond the Walls Is Wild: Being a Woman Outdoors in America

“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.”
― Gigi Georges, Downeast: Five Maine Girls and the Unseen Story of Rural America

“Had he not been so obsessed with his own heart, perhaps he would have noticed his father’s was failing.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“For most American women, culture has defined anything beyond walls and social protections as wild and dangerous.”
― Lilace Mellin Guignard, When Everything Beyond the Walls Is Wild: Being a Woman Outdoors in America