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" Camels are still trained in Alice Springs for tourist jaunts and for occasional sale to Australia's zoos. "

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" Its highest point was The Worst Journey in the World. Then you see this decline, and this harking back, using the 19th-century form when we're not in the 19th century. That way of writing a book about the world out there - you just can't do it anymore. "

" There are worse things than being called 'the camel lady,' I suppose. "

" I think a lot of writers are unrealistic about having their books translated into film. "

" 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. "

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

" My own memories are packed tightly away. I very rarely bring them out for viewing. "

" At the age of 25, I gave up my study of Japanese language and culture at university in Brisbane and moved to the town of Alice Springs. "

" You have to remember that I was an Australian girl of the Fifties and Sixties. For Australians at that time, it was imperative to get out of the country and discover the world. "

" I try to factor solitude into my life because more and more, that's becoming a very precious and rare commodity. "

" If you think of all the enduring stories in the world, they're of journeys. Whether it's 'Don Quixote' or 'Ulysses,' there's always this sense of a quest - of a person going away to be tested, and coming back. "

" Camels are wonderful animals. Witty, intelligent and sensitive. "

" London sort of wore me down. I can't cope with the winters! "

" Australia's arid western region, from the town of Alice Springs to the Indian Ocean coast, is a beautiful, haunting, but largely empty land. Dominated by the harsh, almost uninhabited Great Sandy and Gibson deserts, the region is known only to Australian Aborigines, a handful of white settlers, and the few travelers who motor across it. "

" Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Find out what you're capable of. "

" I've chosen difficult men. But then I'm sure they'd say they'd chosen a difficult woman. "

" I'm not one of those true writers who can't bear not to be writing. Yet it's one of the most important things in my life. "

" People who wander are nicer to be with. Movement militates against hoarding possessions and against bigotry, because you are constantly moving across boundaries and having to negotiate with people. "

" In 10000 BC, all human beings were hunter-gatherers; by 1500 AD, 1 percent were hunter-gatherers. Less than .001 percent of people are hunter-gatherers today. "

" The French word for wanderlust or wandering is 'errance.' The etymology is the same as 'error.' So to wander is to make mistakes. In other words, to make mistakes, to make errors is sort of the idea of learning through trial and error, allowing the mistakes to be part of the process. "

" These days I am ruled by doubt, and that is a difficult place to write from. "

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

" When I was young, I thought I wouldn't be a good mother. Now I think I would be, but I'm too long in the tooth. "

" If you are fragmented and uncertain, it is terrifying to find the boundaries of yourself melt. "

" After thirty years of being 'the camel lady,' believe me: One becomes inured to the spotlight. "

" I think people are frightened by different things, so I don't see myself as particularly courageous. "

" During these last ten thousand years, we have made massive, unprecedented changes to the environment, creating problems for ourselves that we may not be able to solve. "

" Much of the time I'm an introvert, by choice spending a lot of time on my own. I suppose liking my solitude is part of a writer's sensibility. "

" The romantic view would be that nomads are wonderful people, better than us; they care about the environment. "

" You really can expand the boundaries of your life and do risky things and prove yourself by doing them. "

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