Quotes by Cheryl Strayed

About Cheryl Strayed:

Cheryl Strayed is an American memoirist, novelist and essayist. Strayed's personal essays have been published widely in national magazines and journals and have twice been selected for inclusion in The Best American Essays. She won a Pushcart Prize for her essay "Munro Country," which first appeared in The Missouri Review.
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At which point, at long last, there was the actual doing it, quickly followed by the grim realization of what it meant to do it, followed by the decision to quit doing it because doing it was absurd and pointless and ridiculously difficult and far mo...

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It was April in Minneapolis and snowing, the flakes coming down in thick swirls enchanting the city

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In my perception, the world wasn't a graph or formula or an equation. It was a story.

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I'd never had a mind for math. ... It was a logic that made little sense to me. In my perception, the world wasn't a graph or a formula or an equation. It was a story.

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It was really over, I thought. There was no way to go back, to make it stay. There was never that.

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(I)t was Lady who saved my mother's life. Lady, who made it possible for her not only to walk away from my father, but also to keep going. Horses were my mother's religion. It was them she wanted to be with all those Sundays as a child, when she'd be...

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Perhaps by now I'd come far enough that I had the guts to be afraid.

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It had nothing to do with gear or footwear or the backpacking fads or philosophies of any particular era or even with getting from point A to point B. It had to do with how it felt to be in the wild. With what it was like to walk for miles with no re...

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Fear begets fear. Power begets power. I willed myself to beget power.

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Basking in the attention of the people who gathered around me, I didn't just feel like a backpacking expert. I felt like a hard-ass motherfucking Amazonian queen.

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I knew that if I allowed fear to overtake me, my journey was doomed. Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story from the one women are told. I decided I was safe. I was strong. I was...

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My mother saved hundreds of animals in her life. Wherever she encountered and injured or needy or abandoned animal, she brought it home.

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My mother's death put me in touch with my most savage self. As I've grown up and come to terms with her death and accepted it, the pieces of her that I keep don't exist materially.

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My whole life sort of ended when my mom died.

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I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her.

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A lot of people go off and have fun adventures, or hard adventures, and their impulse is to write about them right away. What really makes a difference is having some perspective on what happened.

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One thing any backpacker will tell you is that it's tedious and monotonous. You're bored sometimes, so you really have to make the fun in your head.

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I've learned so much as both a writer and a human.

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Once I was in a cafe in Portland and the woman at the next table and I began chatting and in the course of our conversation she strongly recommend I visit this web site called 'The Rumpus' so I could read this advice column called 'Dear Sugar.' It wa...

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I am, as they say, the classic starving artist.

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My concept of an advice giver had been a therapist or a know-it-all, and then I realized nobody listens to the know-it-alls. You turn to the people you know, the friend who has been in the thick of it or messed up - and I'm that person for sure.

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Author Bio

  • NameCheryl Strayed
  • Descriptionauthor, memoirist, blogger
  • BornSeptember 17, 1968
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWoman Of Letters; Blogger; Essayist
  • WorksTorch; Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice On Love And Life From Dear Sugar; Wild: From Lost To Found On The Pacific Crest Trail