"If the strangeness of my life were the result of snobbishness or posing then people could say: "Yes, she got what she deserved." But no one has ever lived more from day to day or more by chance than I. It's been an inexorable chain of events that has brought me to where I am–not anything I did myself."
Isabelle Eberhardt
Mes Journaliers,
February 9,1901