Passionate Nomad Quotes

“To feel, and think, and learn—learn always: surely that is being alive and young in the real sense. And most people seem to want to stagnate when they reach middle age. I hope I shall not become so, resenting ideas that are not my ideas, and seeing the world with all its changes and growth as a series of congealed formulas.”
― Jane Fletcher Geniesse, Passionate Nomad: The Life of Freya Stark (Modern Library

“it is all very well to shut oneself away from politics, but if one feels that a real crime is being done, it does not seem right to just turn away and think of something else.”
― Jane Fletcher Geniesse, Passionate Nomad: The Life of Freya Stark (Modern Library

“Some day I must make a list of the reasons for which I have been thought mad and by whom: it would make such an amusing medley.”
― Jane Fletcher Geniesse, Passionate Nomad: The Life of Freya Stark (Modern Library

“(“ The great and almost only comfort about being a woman,” she said, “is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised”).”
― Jane Fletcher Geniesse, Passionate Nomad: The Life of Freya Stark (Modern Library

“The thing about the literature of any country is that it is a sort of climate that one breathes,”
― Jane Fletcher Geniesse, Passionate Nomad: The Life of Freya Stark (Modern Library

“They suffer from stagnation of the brain, and that surely produces stagnation of the soul in time. To feel, and think, and learn—learn always: surely that is being alive and young in the real sense. And most people seem to want to stagnate when they reach middle age. I hope I shall not become so, resenting ideas that are not my ideas, and seeing the world with all its changes and growth as a series of congealed formulas.”5”
― Jane Fletcher Geniesse, Passionate Nomad: The Life of Freya Stark (Modern Library