658 Quotes by Rebecca Solnit

...I fear their false urgency, their call to speed, their insistence that travel is less important than arrival...

The stars we are given. The constellations we make. That is to say, stars exist in the cosmos, but constellations are the imaginary lines we draw between them, the readings we give the sky, the stories we tell.

You can use the power of words to bury meaning or to excavate it.

Women often find great roles in revolution, simply because the rules fall apart and everyone has agency, anyone can act. As they did in Egypt, where liberty leading the masses was an earnest young woman in a black hijab.

The art is not one of forgetting but letting go

We die all the time to avoid being killed.

It's tempting to ask why if you fed your neighbors during the time of the earthquake and fire, you didn't do so before or after.

The magic of the street is the mingling of the errand and the epiphany.

...the gym is a kind of wildlife preserve for bodily exertion. A preserve protects species whose habitat is vanishing elsewhere, and the gym (and home gym) accommodates the survival of bodies after the abandonment of the original sites of bodily exertion.