Robyn Davidson Quotes

The two things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.

The good Lord in his ultimate wisdom gave us three things to make life bearable: hope, jokes, and dogs, but the greatest of these was dogs.

And there are new kinds of nomads, not people who are at home everywhere, but who are at home nowhere. I was one of them

I believe when you’re stuck in one spot for too long it’s best to throw a grenade where you stand, and jump…and pray.

When there is no one to remind you what society's rules are, and there is nothing to keep you linked to that society, you had better be prepared for some startling changes.

I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned yourself into doing something difficult and there's no going back.

I believe that the subconscious always knows what is best. It is our conditional, vastly overrated rational mind which screws everything up.

Some of us just don't want to be famous ... anonymity cannot be bought for any price, once you have lost it.

Real travel would be to see the world, for even an instant, with another's eyes

It is better to proceed with one's duty in the service of others than wallow in the pain attachments bring

The most difficult part of any endeavour is taking the first step, making the first decision.

I just don't see myself as a travel writer. I can't. I don't.

Camel trips, as I suspected all along, and as I was about to have confirmed, do not being or end: they mere change form.

That odd idea that one person can go to a foreign part and in this rather odd voice describe it to the folks back home doesn't make much sense in the post-colonial world.

The truth is I'm not really interested in travel writing as it's generally conceived, and even less so in female travel writing.

The genre has moved into this commercial aspect of itself, and ignored this extraordinarily rich literature that's filed everywhere else except under travel.

By taking to the road, we free ourselves of baggage, both physical and psychological. We walk back to our original condition, to our best selves.

Never, never have a famous partner. It's too complicated.

I love the desert and its incomparable sense of space.

I don't want to be bored I don't want to be with someone I don't respect.

It seems to me that the good lord in his infinate wisdom gave us three things to make life bearable- hope, jokes, and dogs. But the greatest of these was dogs.

I kept getting the odd sensation that I was in fact perfectly stationary, and that I was pushing the world around under my feet.