Annie Smith Peck

“My home is where my trunk is.”

“Men who climb are listened to with respect and admiration... A woman receives little but idle curiosity and criticism.”

“The first essentials for a mountaineer are a good heart, a good pair of lungs, and a good pair of legs.”

“I have had my thrills in my own way. I have looked from the heights of the earth and been alone with my God.”

“To a true mountaineer, the climb is the thing, not the summit.”

“Why should I not be as free as a man?”

“I had found my real vocation, and I have never since been free from the longing for the wild, lonely, and magnificent heights.”

“Any woman with a good pair of lungs can climb.”

“I would rather be a spinster than a slave.”

“Woman's place is at the top.”

“The higher you climb, the better the view.”