Quotes from Robyn Davidson

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

I'd always loved writing, in the same way that I'd loved painting. I wouldn't have seen it as a career.

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

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.

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

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.

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

And there are new kinds of nomads, not people who are at home everywhere, but who are at home nowhere. I was one of them

I kept getting the odd sensation that I was in fact perfectly stationary, and that I was pushing the world around under my feet.

Life's the adventure. You don't have to drop your bundle and go bush. It's about being brave within the context that you're in.

Australia's arid western region, from the town of Alice Springs to the Indian Ocean coast, is a beautiful, haunting, but largely empty land. Dominated by the harsh, almost uninhabited Great Sandy and Gibson deserts, the region is known only to Australian Aborigines, a handful of white settlers, and the few travelers who motor across it.

When there is no one to remind you what society's rules are, and there is nothing to keep you linked to that society, you had better be prepared for some startling changes.

You really can expand the boundaries of your life and do risky things and prove yourself by doing them.

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.

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

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.

The two 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.

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.

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

The genre has moved into this commercial aspect of itself, and ignored this extraordinarily rich literature that's filed everywhere else except under travel.

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

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 an endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.

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.

It is our conditioned, vastly overrated rational mind which screws everything up.