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For most American women, culture has defined anything beyond walls and social protections as wild and dangerous.
“Both women and nature are protected, restricted, objectified, idealized, and made passive.”
― 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
“And there are people, strangers at first, who end up bringing you the faith and perspective you never quite realized you were missing. So it was for me Downeast.”
― Downeast: Five Maine Girls and the Unseen Story of Rural America
― Downeast: Five Maine Girls and the Unseen Story of Rural America
“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
“Many women who become mothers continue to alpine climb, surf big waves, ski steep remote slopes, fight wildfires, and more. And why shouldn’t they?”
― 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
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