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Women On Adventure is a blog by K.L. Webber exploring our rich shared history of women's adventure writing. This curated collection of quotations showcases the opinions and experiences of influential female travellers in their own words.

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Oct 30
Oct 30 "A woman’s wages is one paul and three pagnotte, with wine. "

Oct 27
Oct 27 "I have a log cabin, raised on six posts, all to myself, with a skunk’s lair underneath it..."

Oct 25
Oct 25 "A saucy thing that repeats two notes only, not unlike the mockbird."

Oct 23
Oct 23 "They had all some extraordinary reason why it was impossible for me to accompany them at that particular time."

Oct 20
Oct 20 "Behold us setting out in our waggon and eight at nine o’clock in the morning."

Traveling by Wheel & Rail

Oct 18
Oct 18 "It seems very cross to be angry at people being anxious about you, but..."

Oct 16
Oct 16 "When she saw me what joy for both of us!"

Friendships of the Road

Oct 13
Oct 13 "As he increased his speed we increased ours, till a velocity was attained that no horseman could safely exceed..."

Sporting Coves, Sport

Oct 11
Oct 11 "...perfect ninnies, so unlike my dear flying squirrel at Simla."

Oct 6
Oct 6 "No one expects literature in a book of travel."

Oct 4
Oct 4 "Historians, when in doubt, always accuse the Phœnicians."

Sep 1
Sep 1 "Both have been conquered by a country speaking another language to their own, and of totally foreign temperament..."

Aug 30
Aug 30 "A degree of equality which I have seldom seen elsewhere..."

Aug 28
Aug 28 "In short, 'tis the women's coffee-house, where all the news of the town is told..."

Fabulous Daring Darling

Aug 25
Aug 25 "...could discern around us nothing but mountains of lava, while before us rose the huge smoky column..."

Aug 23
Aug 23 "Taking his sword from its scabbard, he held the naked blade over me..."

Apr 22
Apr 22 "...slew, wounded, embezzled, and roamed about till the present moment, when I place myself at the feet of your most illustrious Lordship."

Apr 20
Apr 20 "She laughed, saying that sand was good for the stomach!"

Culinary Wonderlands

Apr 17
Apr 17 "The prospect of a night in a monastery was very exciting."

Apr 15
Apr 15 "...lifting the cover she discovered that the precious liquid had all leaked out. "

Thrills of Acquisition