“I don’t like guidebooks. I don’t like self-help-style “you must do this to be happy” rhetoric. I really don’t like dogmatic, authoritative injunctions of any kind telling me how to live my life. And if my intuition about you, dear reader, is at all accurate, neither do you. So, don’t take anything written here as an imperative. I will be the last person to tell you what you “should” or “must” do. You’ll figure out your own path; I have no doubt about it. Consider this an interpretive roadmap. My roadmap, drawn with the advantage of hindsight and the lessons from over ten years of experience in being a solo female traveler. I hope it may be of benefit to you.”
Source: Vagabondess: A Guide to Solo Female Travel
“There is sometimes a misconception that you have to be self-assured, oozing with confidence, a social butterfly, and comfortable with your own company to long-term solo travel. But that is simply not true”
Source: You, Yourself & the World
“Long term solo traveling gives you the ability to the architect of your own travel design – travel in your own vision and not how people tell you too”
Source: You, Yourself & the World
“Be optimistic. People and places have so much more good in them than meets the eye.
Don't listen, don't listen, don't listen—to them.
Bring your ear to rest on your chest, and listen: the whole point is to live.”
Source: Vagabondess: A Guide to Solo Female Travel
“You don’t ever do something just because it makes you feel good?”
The assistant shrugs. “Mademoiselle, you need to spend more time in Paris.”
Source: Paris for One and Other Stories
“He feels a brief pang that something so major has happened in her life without him knowing.”
Source: Paris for One and Other Stories
“It’s a pang of discomfort but not of pain.”
Source: Paris for One and Other Stories
“I'm not particularly in favor of doctrine or creed, ordination, the elevation of holy texts, the institution of church, or, for that matter, Christianity. Like most religions, it has irreconcilable shortcomings and an unforgivable history. What I do favor is the attempt to make sense of things by living within a story. The Christian story, for good or ill, is my inheritance.”
Source: On The Threshold: Home, Hardwood, and Holiness
“And everything you say sounds better because it’s in French. I might just have to speak in a fake French accent for the rest of my life.”
Source: Paris for One and Other Stories
“How many times had she wanted to have this conversation? How many times had she rehearsed all the things she wanted to say to him?”
Source: Paris for One and Other Stories