She Flies Without Wings | Free Book
Drawing from myth and literature, the author’s own experiences, and interviews with countless women, we learn, through women’s deeply personal stories, how horses enrich our lives and connect us to nature–making us readers of rhythm and invisible signs, helping us harness our youthful sexuality, sharing the “horsepower” we need to reach our dreams. And here we see how, for thousands of years, the deep kinship between women and horses has connected us to our most intimate feelings of delight, helped us learn to solve problems, and set our creativity free.
From the poetry of Geoffrey Chaucer to the fiction of Jane Austen to folktales from around the world, She Flies Without Wings uses great literature and myth to encompass a wide spectrum of beliefs and perspectives–and creates a true celebration of speed, air, and the spectacular animal that connects us with both.
Filled with the moving lessons–-about sensuality, commitment, power, nurturance, and spirituality–women riders have known for centuries, written with a loving hand by an expert equestrian, She Flies Without Wings is an eloquent paean to a pairing that enlivened history, inspired literature, and continues to enchant us all.
In The Press
As a young girl riding a broomstick pony, my imagination carried me
into the skies. Now that I'm a woman, my imagination continues to
take wing when I ride—
On my Theo's back, I am Joan of
Arc riding into battle or Annie Oakley dazzling the Queen of England
in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. I am a goddess soaring to the
heavens, a pioneer woman crossing the Great Plains, a feudal lady
escaping the castle walls for an afternoon—
If we let
them, horses can carry us out of the arena of sameness and into new
worlds of possibility—
— from She Flies Without Wings
"By including passages of breathless admiration, love and
obsession, she allows a rare view of horse-based compulsion ... [the
author defines what] horses have brought into her own and other
women's lives ... namely a liberating sense of self-acceptance."
—
Publishers Weekly
- Title: She Flies Without Wings | Free Book
- Author: Steven
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