Daughters of Distance Quotes

“I think the whole world has essentially been brought up not to be a girl. How do we bring up boys? What does it mean to be a boy? To be a boy really means not to be a girl. To be a man means not to be a girl. To be a woman means not to be a girl. To be strong means not to be a girl. To be a leader means not to be a girl. I actually think that being a girl is so powerful that we’ve had to train everyone not to be that.”
― Vanessa Runs, Daughters of Distance: Stories of Women in Endurance Sports

“All women begin as a bundle of bones lost somewhere in the desert. A few of us— the lucky ones— will live to howl the songs of our souls from the depths of our wild, wild hearts.”
― Vanessa Runs, Daughters of Distance