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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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- “Women have routinely been punished and intimidated for attempting that most simple of freedoms, taking a walk…”Rebecca Solnit
- “For twenty years I have sat alone at a desk tinkering with sentences and then sending them out, and for most…”Rebecca Solnit
- “How long does it take to see something, to know someone? If you put in years, you realize how little you gras…”Rebecca Solnit
- “I wonder sometimes what would happen if victory was imagined not just as the elimination of evil but the esta…”Rebecca Solnit
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- “I would like to spend more time with Spanish poetry. I know French better than Spanish, but Spanish was my fi…”Helen Vendler
- “No matter what your cultural sophistication or what language you speak, everyone can understand images.”Tibor Kalman
- “I tend to be one who just speaks from my soul, and so what comes out sometimes is rather harsh. In that sense…”Cornel West
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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