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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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- “A person in her twenties has been a child for most of her life, but as time goes by that portion that is chil…”Rebecca Solnit
- “A year ago, I was at a dinner in Amsterdam when the question came up of whether each of us loved his or her c…”Rebecca Solnit
Explore Feminism
- “But by far the worst thing we do to males — by making them feel they have to be hard — is that we leave them…”Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- “Women endure the labor of childbirth and men send themselves to war! But I gave birth to eight children and n…”Ana Castillo
- “In the name of feminism, we denied some essential aspects of our authentic selves. While feminism should have…”Marianne Williamson
Explore Power
- “And then, despite the fact that A. J. does not believe in God, he closes his eyes and thanks whomever, the hi…”Gabrielle Zevin
- “I did everything in my power to make divorce easy on my kids, but it's unrealistic to expect they will escape…”Coleen Nolan
- “With a fourth generation of nuclear power, you can have a technology that will burn more than 99 percent of t…”James Hansen
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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