Feminism Quotes by Rebecca Solnit

“...the Men Who Knew came out of the woodwork.”

— Rebecca Solnit

“You can use the power of words to bury meaning or to excavate it.”

— Rebecca Solnit

“Women are an eternal subject, which is a lot like being subjected, or subjugated, or a subject nation, even.”

— Rebecca Solnit

“the backlash against feminism remains savage, strong, and omnipresent, but it is not winning.”

— Rebecca Solnit

“...explaining men still assume I am, in some sort of obscene impregnation metaphor, an empty vessel to be filled with their wisdom…

— Rebecca Solnit

Women often find great roles in revolution, simply because the rules fall apart and everyone has agency, anyone can act.

— Rebecca Solnit

“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

“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

“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

“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

“I think we would understand misogyny and violence against women even better if we looked at the abuse of power as a…

— Rebecca Solnit

I think one of the primary goals of a feminist landscape architecture would be to work toward a public landscape in which…

— Rebecca Solnit

“Like racism, misogyny can never be adequately addressed by its victims alone. The men who get it also understand that feminism is…

— Rebecca Solnit

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

“I like incidents of that sort, when forces that are usually so sneaky and hard to point out slither out of the…

— Rebecca Solnit

“Finding ways to appreciate advances without embracing complacency is a delicate task. It involves being hopeful and motivated and keeping eyes on…

— Rebecca Solnit

“Feminism has both undone the hierarchy in which the elements aligned with the masculine were given greater value than those of the…

— Rebecca Solnit

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

“One whose testimony made a major impact more than a decade ago is Ben Barres, formerly Barbara Barres, a biologist at Stanford…

— Rebecca Solnit

“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

“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

“How can I tell a story we already know too well? Her name was Africa. His was France. He colonized her, exploited…

— Rebecca Solnit

“A woman is still beaten every nine seconds in this country, but thanks to the heroic feminist campaigns of the 1970s and…

— Rebecca Solnit

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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