Sometimes we all need a little inspiration! Check out these great travel quotes by women to help fuel your wanderlust.
“There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed.”
Kate Douglas Wiggin (author, activist)
“Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.”
Mary Ritter Beard (historian, author, activist)
“Traveling’s not something you’re good at. It’s something you do. Like breathing. You can’t work too much at it, or it feels like work. You have to surrender yourself to the chaos. To the accidents.”
Gayle Forman (author)
“If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is.”
Angelina Jolie (actress)
“If one is traveling simply for the sake of traveling and not for the purpose of impressing one’s fellow passengers, the problem of baggage becomes a very simple one.”
Nellie Bly (journalist, author)
“One thing that I love about traveling is feeling disoriented and removed from my comfort zone.”
Sarah Glidden (cartoonist, illustrator)
“It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.”
Ursula K. Le Guin (author)
“Surely one advantage of traveling is that, while it removes much prejudice against foreigners and their customs, it intensifies tenfold one’s appreciation of the good at home.”
Isabella Bird (explorer, author)
“Wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking.”
Martha Barron Barrett (author)
“It is in all of us to defy expectations, to go into the world and to be brave, and to want, to need, to hunger for adventures. To embrace the chance and risk so that we may breathe and know what it is to be free.”
Mae Chevrette (artist)
“An adventure may be worn as a muddy spot or it may be worn as a proud insignia. It is the woman wearing it who makes it the one thing or the other.”
Norma Shearer (actress)
“I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.”
Susan Sontag (author, filmmaker)
“Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There’s no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.”
Fanny Burney (author)
“I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.”
Maya Angelou (poet)
“Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you’ve never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground.”
Judith Thurman (author)
“Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time.”
Hannah Arendt (philosopher)
“You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.”
Ella Maillart (explorer, photographer)
“Travel is as much a passion as ambition or love.”
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (author)
“Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.”
Eudora Welty (author)
“The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
Agnes Repplier (author)
