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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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- “You read enough books in which people like you are disposable, or are dirt, or are silent, absent, or worthle…”Rebecca Solnit
- “I'm grateful that, after an early life of being silenced, sometimes violently, I grew up to have a voice, cir…”Rebecca Solnit
- “Mostly we tell the story of our lives, or mostly we're taught to tell it, as a quest to avoid suffering, thou…”Rebecca Solnit
- “Thinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production-oriented society, and doing nothing is hard…”Rebecca Solnit
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- “I've been burdened with blame trapped in the past for too long, I'm moving on”Rascal Flatts
- “No matter how much you stress or obsess about the past or future, you can't change either one. In the present…”Mandy Hale
- “Every action is a losing, a letting go, a passing away from oneself of some bit of one’s own reality into the…”Arthur C. McGill
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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