When Everything Beyond the Walls Is Wild Quotes

“Both women and nature are protected, restricted, objectified, idealized, and made passive.”
― Lilace Mellin Guignard, When Everything Beyond the Walls Is Wild: Being a Woman Outdoors in America

“For most American women, culture has defined anything beyond walls and social protections as wild and dangerous.”
― Lilace Mellin Guignard, When Everything Beyond the Walls Is Wild: Being a Woman Outdoors in America

“these were the experiences I wanted my son to remember. The mother I wanted him to know. The mother I wanted to be.”
― Lilace Mellin Guignard, When Everything Beyond the Walls Is Wild: Being a Woman Outdoors in America

“Many women who become mothers continue to alpine climb, surf big waves, ski steep remote slopes, fight wildfires, and more. And why shouldn’t they?”
― Lilace Mellin Guignard, When Everything Beyond the Walls Is Wild: Being a Woman Outdoors in America

“Don’t go alone, take a guy with you!”—an especially problematic message for single women since more than 80 percent of sexual crimes are committed by someone they know.”
― Lilace Mellin Guignard, When Everything Beyond the Walls Is Wild: Being a Woman Outdoors in America

“Women’s accounts of outdoor adventures repeatedly show how men and women can be in the same place while still in different worlds.”
― Lilace Mellin Guignard, When Everything Beyond the Walls Is Wild: Being a Woman Outdoors in America

“I want that freedom to move around outdoors, to do so without always feeling watched, threatened, restricted, or accountable to someone. To not be a babe—innocent or lusty. To just be in the woods.”
― Lilace Mellin Guignard, When Everything Beyond the Walls Is Wild: Being a Woman Outdoors in America