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These women were on the road long before Jack Kerouac.

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Thank you We sneak Symbols traveling i'll ashman traveling journey

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were really important thoughts at the time really important like

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embassies because this was the moment of exploration especially this's

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When before colonising new places trying to mack well right

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traveling for business as well as for political Exactly But

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now here with these books were seeing women travelling or

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not just so i think this is really in conversation

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with the idea of chains and enclosures It's another way

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of getting out the same when a woman has mobility

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is it because she's free in some way Is it

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because like after bain she's able to travel and have

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a career and accomplished things Or is it because she's

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being forced to move as a barrier alone size and

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marry roland even in the after being right there is

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the person traveling voluntarily and then there's orinoco was being

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displaced So there's a tension between journey being problem staying

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you far from home and journey being all about self

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discovery because you're leaving and you have queen elizabeth who's

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kind of consolidates that when she says to the troops

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i have traveled here to be here with you it's

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a journey that i took that puts me in a

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lot of paris But that's precisely what makes me strong

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and is a reason that you should respect women Certainly

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do move between lots and lots of spaces For what

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reasons Did women travel well made traveling a negative experience

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What made it a positive experience The secret to travelling 00:01:36.889 --> [endTime] is rewards points Yes folks Rewards points

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