Isabella Bird

“I am getting more and more to feel that it is a dreadful thing to be a woman.”

“I have just dropped into the very place I have been seeking, but in everything it exceeds all my dreams.”

“The travellers are all asleep, and the night is dark and calm. I am alone, in every sense of the word.”

“I dreamt of bears and other horrors, and woke up with a headache.”

“To be a lady is to be a slave.”

“Life is a struggle from the cradle to the grave.”

“I have found a dream of beauty at which one might look all one's life and sigh.”

“It is a shocking thing to be a lone woman in a lone house, with the nearest habitation a mile off, and the door not even locked.”

“I do not know any one thing that is more enviable than the power of simple, unostentatious giving.”

“One can go everywhere with a revolver and a little money.”

“There is a queer, lonely, savage beauty about this place.”

“I have done nothing which any other woman could not do.”

“I was 'a character.' It was the only way I could get any attention.”

“You are not to think of me as a brave person. I have been terrified more often than I can count.”

“There are no bananas in Colorado.”

“Adventure is an attitude, not a destination.”