Robyn Davidson

There are some moments in life that are like pivots around which your existence turns—small intuitive flashes, when you know you have…

— Robyn Davidson

Australia's arid western region, from the town of Alice Springs to the Indian Ocean coast, is a beautiful, haunting, but largely empty…

— Robyn Davidson

The two things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that…

— Robyn Davidson

That odd idea that one person can go to a foreign part and in this rather odd voice describe it to the…

— Robyn Davidson

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

— Robyn Davidson

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

— Robyn Davidson

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

— Robyn Davidson

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

— Robyn Davidson

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

— Robyn Davidson

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

— Robyn Davidson

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

— Robyn Davidson

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

— Robyn Davidson

Its highest point was The Worst Journey in the World. Then you see this decline, and this harking back, using the 19th-century…

— Robyn Davidson

By now I was utterly deprogrammed. I walked along naked usually, clothes being not only putrid but unnecessary. My skin had been…

— Robyn Davidson

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

— Robyn Davidson

“Why did people circle one another, consumed with either fear or envy, when all the they were fearing or envying was illusion?…

— Robyn Davidson

When there is no one to remind you what society's rules are, and there is nothing to keep you linked to that…

— Robyn Davidson

“...desert time refused to structure itself. It preferred instead to flow in curlicues, vortices and tunnels,...”

— Robyn Davidson

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

— Robyn Davidson

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

— Robyn Davidson

“... I had to learn how to be cheerful in the face of adversity”

— Robyn Davidson

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

— Robyn Davidson

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

— Robyn Davidson

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

— Robyn Davidson

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

— Robyn Davidson