I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it.
Ella MaillartFrom the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide.
Ella MaillartHumanity is made up of an infinity of different individuals. Each of us travels for motives exclusively his own.
Ella MaillartI am sure that instinctively we wish to be everything, to possess it-why cut the rose or marry the man, otherwise?
Ella Maillart