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About Rebecca Solnit
American writer and activist
Rebecca Solnit is an American writer and activist. She writes about feminism, the environment, politics, place, and art. Her work ranges across essays and commentary on public life, with recurring attention to how people move through the world and how ideas shape it. She is also known for writing on land, landscape, and culture, bringing together personal observation and social critique.
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- “What lies ahead seems unlikely; when it becomes the past, it seems inevitable.”Rebecca Solnit
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- “Credibility is a basic survival tool.”Rebecca Solnit
Explore Human Rights
- “The thing about talking about human rights is that when one bears in mind the sharp end of it, one does not w…”Tom Stoppard
- “With deregulation, privatisation, free trade, what we're seeing is yet another enclosure and, if you like, pr…”Elaine Bernard
- “Few governments in the world, for example, praise human rights more ardently than does the government of Fran…”Richard Perle
Feminism: more sayings
- “The tragedy is that women so committed to survival cannot recognize that they are committing suicide.”Andrea Dworkin
- “Because this woman sobbed in the way that all women sob, whether they do it outwardly or whether they keep it…”Graham Masterton
- “John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage.”Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Books by Rebecca Solnit
Men Explain Things To Me
2014
Wanderlust
2000
Hope in the Dark
2004
The Mother of all Questions
2017
Whose Story Is This?
2019