“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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
[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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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