Because when an artist has to assert that her intended audience is all humans rather than those who happen to be of her particular gender or race, what sheโs actually having to assert is the breadth and depth of her own humanity.
Cheryl StrayedWe are all at risk of something. Of ending up exactly where we began, of failing to imagine and find and know and actualize who we could be. The only difference is the distance of the leap.
Cheryl StrayedHe kissed me hard and I kissed him back harder, like it was the end of an era that had lasted all of my life.
Cheryl StrayedEach evening, I ached for the shelter of my tent, for the smallest sense that something was shielding me from the entire rest of the world, keeping me safe not from danger, but from vastness itself. I loved the dim, clammy dark of my tent, the cozy familiarity of the way I arranged my few belongings all around me each night.
Cheryl Strayed