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This nation is really ready for a woman president. It's taken time, but we're ready. ↗

— Ellen Malcolm

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I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition. ↗

— Ella Maillart

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The sooner we learn to be jointly responsible, the easier the sailing will be. ↗

— Ella Maillart

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Certain travellers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive. ↗

— Ella Maillart

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Every time I took a long leave from home, I felt as if I were going to conquer the world. Or rather, take possession of what is my birthright, my inheritance. ↗

— Ella Maillart

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One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm. ↗

— Ella Maillart

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From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide. ↗

— Ella Maillart

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Humanity is made up of an infinity of different individuals. Each of us travels for motives exclusively his own. ↗

— Ella Maillart

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I can see now that a concept or even a feeling makes no sense unless out of our substance we spin around it a web of references, of relationships, of values. ↗

— Ella Maillart

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I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it. ↗

— Ella Maillart

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