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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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- “The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed ... or find a still greater man to marry her.…”Dorothy L. Sayers
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- “What is acted out on the female body parallels the larger practices of domination, fragmentation, and conques…”Jane Caputi
Explore Art
- “Some graphic narrative art presses against the panel: you wrestle with it at the level of the paper.”Elizabeth McCracken
- “Art suffers the moment other people start paying for it.”Hugh MacLeod
- “Art invariably grows out of a period when, in general, the artist admires his own nation and wants to win its…”F. Scott Fitzgerald
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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