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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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- “We are all the heroes of our own stories, and on of the arts of perspective is to see yourself small on the s…”Rebecca Solnit
- “That thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you is usually what you need to find, and finding it is…”Rebecca Solnit
- “Fairy tales are about trouble, about getting into and out of it, and trouble seems to be a necessary stage on…”Rebecca Solnit
- “I like incidents of that sort, when forces that are usually so sneaky and hard to point out slither out of th…”Rebecca Solnit
Truth: more sayings
- “And in my novels I live many lives. Substitutes of spontaneity to replace a dreary reality. How I live for th…”Hubert Martin
- “But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have…”Mikhail Bakunin
- “It’s funny how those we care about can create the same reaction that we get when we are facing down a monster…”Brandy Nacole
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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