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" 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. "

Robyn Davidson

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World

Voice

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

" My sense of myself is that I was a rather unformed kind of person trying to make myself up out of bits of spit and string. "

Robyn Davidson

Myself

Sense

" 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. "

" The desert is natural; when you are out there, you can get in tune with your environment, something you lose when you live in the city. "

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

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

" That arrogance of youth and that kind of ignorant confidence can get you through a whole lot of things, and then life does its stuff, and you get smashed around and beaten up. You get full of doubts, and you end up making a person out of those bits and pieces. "

" 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. "

" In every religion I can think of, there exists some variation on the theme of abandoning the settled life and walking one's way to godliness. The Hindu sadhu, the pilgrims of Compostela walking past their sins, the circumambulators of the Buddhist kora, the haj. "

" The two important 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I do not mean to say that we should, or could, return to traditional nomadic economies. I do mean to say that there are systems of knowledge and grand poetical schemata derived from the mobile life that it would be foolish to disregard or underrate. And mad to destroy. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

Robyn Davidson

Care

Environment

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

" As you get older, you do just get tired. "

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

" Of course, in India, I always said, 'Oh yes, I'm married.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It is always interesting being on films sets - I have done it before with other actor friends - and I just find it fascinating. I just love that collaborative film family that develops around a project. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The idea of finding things out, I hope that will stay with me until I drop. "

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

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