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

Mar 27
Mar 27 "Wise and experienced chief officers never see Mrs. S.’s crates, but young and truculent ones do..."

Sailing & Steaming

Mar 23
Mar 23 "Several times we had to rush over places where the ice buckled under us."

Traveling by Wheel & Rail

Mar 20
Mar 20 "A young lady, like a great general, is nothing without a proper staff."

WOA Image: "The night was so exquisite that I was content to rest without sleeping."

Mar 18

Mar 18 WOA Image: "The night was so exquisite that I was content to rest without sleeping."

Painting With Words

Mar 16
Mar 16 "My imagination hurries me forward to seek an asylum from all the disappointments I am threatened with."

Impetus for Adventure

Mar 13
Mar 13 "The last year out of England. Mind you all keep well a few months longer."

WOA Image: "There is something sobering and solemn in these great tracts of sand..."

Mar 11

Mar 11 WOA Image: "There is something sobering and solemn in these great tracts of sand..."

Mounted Adventures

Mar 9
Mar 9 "The shortest way of learning is to mix at once with those we wish to learn from."

Mar 6
Mar 6 "We must take in sail and yield the race!"

WOA Image - "This climb was something totally different."

Mar 4

Mar 4 WOA Image - "This climb was something totally different."

Mar 2
Mar 2 "I beheld a huge bear peeping out at me from a cleft in the rocks..."

Feb 27
Feb 27 "The most impressive feature of all is the profound silence and solitude."

Painting With Words

Feb 23
Feb 23 "This is wch they Call the Devills Arse a peake."

Feb 20
Feb 20 "The first sight of Palmyra is like a regiment of cavalry..."

Feb 16
Feb 16 "As to the thoughts, who knows where he got them?"

Friendships of the Road

Feb 13
Feb 13 "...wallowed in my letters like a pig."

WOA Image: "Today is the last day the sun will be above the horizon..."

Feb 11

Feb 11 WOA Image: "Today is the last day the sun will be above the horizon..."

Feb 8
Feb 8 "The mean machinery which has directed many transactions of moment."

Espionage & Diplomacy

Feb 6
Feb 6 "The charm of the East is the absence of intellectual life there."