Quotes by : Rebecca Solnit

That thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you is usually what you need to find, and finding....

the revolt against brutality begins with a revolt against the language that hides that brutality.

When I was young, women were raped on the campus of a great university and the authorities responded....

Women have routinely been punished and intimidated for attempting that most simple of freedoms, taking....

Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break....

Read good writing, and don’t live in the present. Live in the deep past, with the language of the Koran....

Your opponents would love you to believe that it's hopeless, that you have no power, that there's no....

Yes, people of both genders pop up at events to hold forth on irrelevant things and conspiracy theories,....

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

Despair is a form of certainty, certainty that the future will be a lot like the present or will decline....