Quotes by : Rebecca Solnit

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

Fairy tales are about trouble, about getting into and out of it, and trouble seems to be a necessary....

This is what is behind the special relationship between tale and travel, and, perhaps, the reason why....

Of course, women are capable of all sorts of major unpleasantness, and there are violent crimes by women,....

What lies ahead seems unlikely; when it becomes the past, it seems inevitable.

I love going out of my way, beyond what I know, and finding my way back a few extra miles, by another....

I told the students that they were at the age when they might begin to choose places that would sustain....

To tell a story is always to translate the raw material into a specific shape, to select out of the boundless....

How do you even speak of, let alone propose regulation of, [any] category [so] full of internal contradictions?....

The art is not one of forgetting but letting go. And when everything else is gone, you can be rich in....