“You can use the power of words to bury meaning or to excavate it.” — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“...explaining men still assume I am, in some sort of obscene impregnation metaphor, an empty vessel to be filled with their wisdom… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“the backlash against feminism remains savage, strong, and omnipresent, but it is not winning.” — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Women’s work, like much blue-collar work and agrarian work, is often invisible and uncredited, the work that holds the world together—” — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Women often find great roles in revolution, simply because the rules fall apart and everyone has agency, anyone can act. — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Women are an eternal subject, which is a lot like being subjected, or subjugated, or a subject nation, even.” — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“A woman is still beaten every nine seconds in this country, but thanks to the heroic feminist campaigns of the 1970s and… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“I like incidents of that sort, when forces that are usually so sneaky and hard to point out slither out of the… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Studies of the Surgeon General’s office reveal that domestic violence is the leading cause of injury to women between the ages of… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Every woman knows what I’m talking about. It’s the presumption that makes it hard, at times, for any woman in any field;… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“We have an abundance of rape and violence against women in this country and on this Earth, though it’s almost never treated… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“To which I’d like to append a variation on Lewis’s Law (“all comments on feminism justify feminism”): the plethora of men attacking women… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“It’s not that I want to pick on men. I just think that if we noticed that women are, on the whole,… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Much of this is done through speech, through telling of one’s plight, through being heard, through hearing compassion and understanding in the… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Of course false-rape allegations have happened. My friend Astra Taylor points out that the most dramatic examples in this country were when… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“One whose testimony made a major impact more than a decade ago is Ben Barres, formerly Barbara Barres, a biologist at Stanford… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Jenny Chiu tweeted, “Sure #NotAllMen are misogynists and rapists. That’s not the point. The point is that #YesAllWomen live in fear of… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Feminism has both undone the hierarchy in which the elements aligned with the masculine were given greater value than those of the… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Finding ways to appreciate advances without embracing complacency is a delicate task. It involves being hopeful and motivated and keeping eyes on… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Every woman knows what I'm talking about. It’s the presumption that makes it hard, at times, for any woman in any field;… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“How can I tell a story we already know too well? Her name was Africa. His was France. He colonized her, exploited… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Sulkowicz’s genius was to make her burden tangible, and in so doing make it something others could share. Solidarity has been a… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“At my glummest, I sometimes think women get to choose—between being punished for being unsubjugated and the continual punishment of subjugation. If… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
The battle with Men Who Explain Things has trampled down many women - of my generation, of the up-and-coming generation we need… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“I think we would understand misogyny and violence against women even better if we looked at the abuse of power as a… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I think one of the primary goals of a feminist landscape architecture would be to work toward a public landscape in which… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Like racism, misogyny can never be adequately addressed by its victims alone. The men who get it also understand that feminism is… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Georgia O’Keeffe moved to rural New Mexico, from which she would sign her letters to the people she loved, “from the faraway nearby.” It… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share
Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share
“To love someone is to put yourself in their place, we say, which is to put ourself in their story, or figure out how… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share
“People have always been good at imagining the end of the world, which is much easier to picture than the strange sidelong paths of… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share
“Whose maps are we trying to read? And what are we trying to draw? It's so common to live in a place without truly… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share
“I was being cured of soldiering on endlessly: my job was now to be still, which had become almost easy at last.” — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share
In the aftermath of 9/11, people had not a good time, but a deep, profound, rousing time, woke up from their ennui and isolation… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share
“I wonder now about Demeter and Persephone. Maybe Persephone was glad to run off with the king of death to his underground realm, maybe… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share
[In mountaineering, if] we look for private experience rather than public history, even getting to the top becomes an optional narrative rather than the… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share
For me, being in a car or on an airplane is like being in limbo. It's this dead zone between two places. But to… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share
“How do you calculate upon the unforeseen? It seems to be an art of recognizing the role of the unforeseen, of keeping your balance… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share
Walking shares with making and working that crucial element of engagement of the body and the mind with the world, of knowing the world… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share
“Marriage equality is a threat: to inequality. It’s a boon to everyone who values and benefits from equality. It’s for all of us.” — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share
“Mountaineering is always spoken of as though summiting is conquest, but as you get higher, the world gets bigger, and you feel smaller in… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share
“A procession is a participants' journey, while a parade is a performance with an audience.” — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share
