Rebecca Solnit's Profile
Brief about Rebecca Solnit: By info that we know Rebecca Solnit was born at 1961-06-11. And also Rebecca Solnit is American Writer.
Some Rebecca Solnit's quotes. Goto "Rebecca Solnit's quotation" section for more.Men explain things to me, still. And no man has ever apologized for explaining, wrongly, things that I know and they don't. Not yet, but according to the actuarial tables, I may have another fortysomething years to live, more or less, so it could happen. Though I'm not holding my breath.
Tags: Happen, May, MenMore and more I think of privatisation as being not just about the takeover of resources and power by corporate interests, but as the retreat of citizens to private life and private space, screened from solidarity with strangers and increasingly afraid or even unable to imagine acting in public.
Tags: Acting, Life, PowerPanic is rare, looting is essentially insignificant, people are not terrified and trampling each other to flee from a disaster scene, but in fact are trying to manage a situation. We may in fact revert to some sort of primordial civility.
Tags: Fact, May, TryingRevolution is a phase, a mood, like spring, and just as spring has its buds and showers, so revolution has its ebullience, its bravery, its hope, and its solidarity. Some of these things pass.
Tags: Hope, Revolution, SpringThe exercise of democracy begins as exercise, as walking around, becoming familiar with the streets, comfortable with strangers, able to imagine your own body as powerful and expressive rather than a pawn.
Tags: Able, Democracy, PowerfulThe great majority of people are calm, resourceful, altruistic or even beyond altruistic, as they risk themselves for others. We improvise the conditions of survival beautifully.
Tags: Calm, Great, OthersThe more we heat up the planet, the more it costs all of us, not just in money, but in colossal famines, displacements, deaths, and species extinctions, as well as in the loss of some of the things that make this planet a blue-green jewel, including its specialized habitats from the melting Arctic to bleaching coral reefs.
Tags: Heat, Loss, MoneyThe world you live in is not a given; much of what is best in it has been built through the struggles of passionate activists over the last centuries. They won us many freedoms and protected many beauties. Count those gifts among your growing heap.
Tags: Best, Growing, LastThinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production-oriented society, and doing nothing is hard to do. It's best done by disguising it as doing something, and the something closest to doing nothing is walking.
Tags: Best, Hard, SocietyTo say that everything without exception is going straight to hell is not an alternative vision but only an inversion of the mainstream's 'everything's fine.'
Tags: Fine, Hell, VisionWe are entering an era of heightened disaster, thanks to climate change. Being prepared for disaster will mean being prepared to sift truth from rumour, and being prepared to adjust our worldview.
Tags: Change, Mean, TruthWe have a real role in how our own collective lives, our nation, and our world and society turn out. Seizing those opportunities is important, and disasters are sometimes one of those opportunities.
Tags: Real, Society, SometimesTo be hopeful means to be uncertain about the future, to be tender toward possibilities, to be dedicated to change all the way down to the bottom of your heart.
Tags: Change, Future, HeartGiven a choice between their worldview and the facts, it's always interesting how many people toss the facts.
Tags: Between, Choice, FactsHaving the right to show up and speak are basic to survival, to dignity, and to liberty.
Tags: Liberty, Show, SpeakIt's hardly surprising that the corporate aliens lie when it comes to the relationship between doing something about climate change and the economy.
Tags: Between, Change, LiePeople rescue each other. They build shelters and community kitchens and ways to deal with lost children and eventually rebuild one way or another.
Tags: Another, Children, LostRevolution is as unpredictable as an earthquake and as beautiful as spring. Its coming is always a surprise, but its nature should not be.
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