Read the signs in the firmament
One with the wind and waves / New York Harbor / Dec. 2007
“To guide our own craft, we must be captain, pilot, engineer; with chart and compass to stand at the wheel; to match the wind and waves and know when to take in the sail, and to read the signs in the firmament over all. It matters not whether the solitary voyager is man or woman.”
~ from The Solitude of Self, an Address Delivered by Elizabeth Cady Stanton before the Committee of the Judiciary of the United States Congress, Monday, January 18, 1892.
* Firmament is defined as “expanse of the heavens; sky”