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Writing is saying to no one and to everyone the things it is not possible to say to someone.
— Rebecca Solnit
We know less when we erroneously think we know than when we recognize that we don't.
— Rebecca Solnit
You can use the power of words to bury meaning or to excavate it.
— Rebecca Solnit
We talk about politicians being in public life, but they seldom appear in the public space where everyone is free to appear as a citizen.
— Rebecca Solnit
Kindness and gentleness never had a gender, and neither did empathy.
— Rebecca Solnit
Women often find great roles in revolution, simply because the rules fall apart and everyone has agency, anyone can act.
— Rebecca Solnit
No matter how deeply you come to know a place, you can keep coming back to know it more.
— Rebecca Solnit
I'm a big fan of the vigor of civil society, political engagement, and public life in many parts of Latin America.
— Rebecca Solnit
Sometimes it seems that the fate of the world is decided entirely in the ether of electronic communications and corporate backroom deals.
— Rebecca Solnit
The promenade is a special subset of walking.
— Rebecca Solnit
I sometimes wonder what those of us who are writers would become in a nonliterary culture - storytellers? Hermits?
— Rebecca Solnit
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[Cabeza de Vaca] ceased to be lost not by returning but by turning into something else.
— Rebecca Solnit
Having the right to show up and speak are basic to survival, to dignity, and to liberty.
— Rebecca Solnit
The questions a photographer raises may be more profound than the answers the medium permits.
— Rebecca Solnit
Up high, biology vanishes to reveal a world shaped by the starker forces of geology and meteorology, the bare bones of the earth wrapped in sky.
— Rebecca Solnit
Hope is not like a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky ... hope is an ax you break down doors with in an emergency.
— Rebecca Solnit
...showing us the role of this city and that mountain, for places loom larger than people.
— Rebecca Solnit
What distinguishes a technological world is that the terms of nature are obscured; one need not live quite in the present or the local.
— Rebecca Solnit
A labyrinth is a symbolic journey ... but it is a map we can really walk on, blurring the difference between map and world.
— Rebecca Solnit
People rescue each other. They build shelters and community kitchens and ways to deal with lost children and eventually rebuild one way or another.
— Rebecca Solnit
Some music has words, and rock had words that at times aspired to poetry, but the words were always sounds first, spoken to the body before the mind.
— Rebecca Solnit
Afraid of the darkness of the unknown, the spaces in which we see only dimly, we often choose the darkness of closed eyes, of obliviousness.
— Rebecca Solnit
All gardening is landscape painting,' said Alexander Pope.
— Rebecca Solnit
Ideas emerge from edges and shadows to arrive in the light, and though that's where they may be seen by others, that's not where they're born.
— Rebecca Solnit
The worst criticism seeks to have the last word and leave the rest of us in silence; the best opens up an exchange that need never end.
— Rebecca Solnit
Lost really has two disparate meanings. Losing things is about the familiar falling away, getting lost is about the unfamiliar appearing.
— Rebecca Solnit
There is no one as dangerous as he or she who has nothing to lose.
— Rebecca Solnit
I fear their false urgency, their call to speed, their insistence that travel is less important than arrival ...
— Rebecca Solnit
Perfection is a stick with which to beat the possible.
— Rebecca Solnit
Men explain things to me, and other women, whether or not they know what they're talking about. Some men.
— Rebecca Solnit
Never turn down an adventure without a really good reason.
— Rebecca Solnit
The animal kingdom has nothing else like this column of flesh and bone always in danger of toppling, this proud unsteady tower.
— Rebecca Solnit
Perfectionists often position themselves on the sidelines, from which they point out that nothing is good enough.
— Rebecca Solnit
You are not just a consumer. You are a citizen of this Earth and your responsibility is not private but public, not individual but social.
— Rebecca Solnit
Were revolutions ever really that we thought them to be?
— Rebecca Solnit
If the body is the register of the real, then reading with one's feet is real in a way reading with one's eyes alone is not.
— Rebecca Solnit
Activism is not a journey to the corner store. It is a plunge into the unknown. The future is always dark.
— Rebecca Solnit
Violence always seems to me the worst form of tyranny. It deprives people of their rights, including the right to live.
— Rebecca Solnit
The revolt against brutality begins with a revolt against the language that hides that brutality.
— Rebecca Solnit
It's the unpredictable incidents between official events that add up to a life, the incalculable that gives it value.
— Rebecca Solnit
Despair is easy, or at least low cost.
— Rebecca Solnit
Men explain things to me, still. And no man has ever apologized for explaining, wrongly, things that I know and they don't.
— Rebecca Solnit
I was being cured of soldiering on endlessly: my job was now to be still, which had become almost easy at last.
— Rebecca Solnit
To love someone is to put yourself in their place, we say, which is to put yourself in their story, or figure out how to tell yourself their story.
— Rebecca Solnit
It's tempting to ask why if you fed your neighbors during the time of the earthquake and fire, you didn't do so before or after.
— Rebecca Solnit
Photographs and essays and novels and the rest can change your life; they are dangerous.
— Rebecca Solnit
Just because the question can be answered doesn't mean that anyone is obliged to answer it, or that it ought to be asked.
— Rebecca Solnit
Credibility is a basic survival tool.
— Rebecca Solnit
Pain serves a purpose. Without it you are in danger. What you cannot feel you cannot take care of.
— Rebecca Solnit
Roads are a record of those who have gone before.
— Rebecca Solnit
The boiling point of water is straightfoward, but the boiling point of societies is mysterious.
— Rebecca Solnit
Sense of place is the sixth sense, an internal compass and map made by memory and spatial perception together.
— Rebecca Solnit
What escapes categorization can escape detection altogether
— Rebecca Solnit
The pandemic of violence always gets explained as anything but gender, anything but what would seem to be the broadest explanatory pattern of all.
— Rebecca Solnit
Think of how much more time and energy we would have to focus on other things that matter if we weren't so busy surviving.
— Rebecca Solnit
Only when the honey turns to dust are you free.
— Rebecca Solnit
I set out to write books, to be surrounded by generous, brilliant people, and to have great adventures.
— Rebecca Solnit
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[B]eauty is one of the things that make you cry and so maybe beauty is always tied up in tears.
— Rebecca Solnit
Fear of making mistakes can itself become a huge mistake, one that prevents you from living, for life is risky and anything less is already loss.
— Rebecca Solnit
I just think some books are instructions on why women are dirt or hardly exist at all except as accessories or are inherently evil and empty.
— Rebecca Solnit
...the Men Who Knew came out of the woodwork.
— Rebecca Solnit
Revolution is as unpredictable as an earthquake and as beautiful as spring. Its coming is always a surprise, but its nature should not be.
— Rebecca Solnit
I don't think my work has to be loved by everyone, and it's loved by enough people that I'm grateful and able to keep going.
— Rebecca Solnit
A lot of people think of political activism as some grim duty, and I think we do have an obligation to be citizens - to be informed and engaged.
— Rebecca Solnit
I think that walking down the middle of the street with several thousand people who share your deepest beliefs is one of the best ways to take a walk.
— Rebecca Solnit
... a certain kind of wanderlust can only be assuaged by the acts of the body itself in motion, not the motion of the car, boat, or plane.
— Rebecca Solnit
The process of transformation consists mostly of decay.
— Rebecca Solnit
Who drinks your tears, who has your wings, who hears your story?
— Rebecca Solnit
Sometimes, cause and effect are centuries apart
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Every walker is a guard on patrol to protect the ineffable.
— Rebecca Solnit
Blue is the color of longing for the distances you never arrive in, for the blue world.
— Rebecca Solnit
Rights are more reliable than the kindness of someone who has absolute power over you.
— Rebecca Solnit
The purpose of activism and art, or at least of mine, is to make a world in which people are producers of meaning, not consumers, and
— Rebecca Solnit
There is no good answer to being a woman; the art may instead lie in how we refuse the question.
— Rebecca Solnit
You don't have to be a preacher to talk about what matters, and you don't have to drop the pleasures of style
— Rebecca Solnit
Space--as landscape, terrain, spectacle, experience--has vanished.
— Rebecca Solnit
I roam around a lot in my territory, but what I learn at one end inflects and opens up my understanding at the other.
— Rebecca Solnit
The power of large corporations is still a scourge on the earth, but at least the arguments supporting them are undermined.
— Rebecca Solnit
Time always wins; our victories are only delays; but delays are sweet, and a delay can last a whole lifetime.
— Rebecca Solnit
Time itself is our tragedy and most of us are fighting some kind of war against it.
— Rebecca Solnit
Sometimes a few passionate people change the world; sometimes they start a mass movement and millions do.
— Rebecca Solnit
Making a poem is like making a chair; a poem is as real as a chair and sometimes more useful.
— Rebecca Solnit
Walking allows us to be in our bodies and in the world without being made busy by them.
— Rebecca Solnit
What you imagine as overwhelming or terrifying while at leisure becomes something you can cope with when you must-there is no time for fear.
— Rebecca Solnit
This is what we mean by democracy: that everyone has a voice, that no one gets away with things just because of their wealth, power, race, or gender.
— Rebecca Solnit
Never to get lost is not to live, not to know how to get lost brings you to destruction.
— Rebecca Solnit
To tell a story is always to translate the raw material into a specific shape, to select out of the boundless potential facts those that seem salient.
— Rebecca Solnit
