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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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- “What all the ads and whoreoscopes seemed to imply was that if only you were narcissistic enough, if only you…”Erica Jong
- “The rest of us have never embraced your victim mentality; we are not victims. We are people, the same way tha…”Lori Ziganto
- “Fame is fun, money is useful, celebrity can be exciting, but finally life is about optimal well-being and how…”bell hooks
Explore Depression
- “Don't take my hate personal. I hate even myself.”Mario Fingarov
- “In our secular world, we no longer see eternal paradise as a carrot at the end of the stick of life, but try…”Svend Brinkmann
- “The same sensitivity that opens artists to Being also makes them vulnerable to the dark powers of non-Being.…”David N. Elkins
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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