658 Quotes by Rebecca Solnit

By now you’ve noticed that Woolf says “I don’t know” quite a lot.

Why do such bad questions get predictably asked? Maybe part of the problem is that we have learned to ask the wrong questions of ourselves. Our culture is steeped in a kind of pop psychology whose obsessive question is: Are you happy? We ask it so reflexively that i seems natural to wish that a pharmacist with a time machine could deliver a lifetime supply of antidepressants to Bloomsbury, so that an incomparable feminist prose stylist could be reoriented to produce litters of Woolf babies.

After all, many people make babies; only one made To the Lighthouse and Three Guineas...

The boiling point of water is straightfoward, but the boiling point of societies is mysterious.

Los adolescentes se imaginan muriendo jóvenes porque les es más fácil imaginarse la muerte que imaginarse a la persona en la quizá los conviertan todas las decisiones y responsabilidades de la vida adulta.

We need to stop telling the story about the woman who stayed home, passive and dependent, waiting for her man. She wasn't sitting around waiting. She was busy. She still is.

Why is it that white people find it easier to think like a mountain than like a person of colour?'Carl Anthony quoted by Rebecca Solnit

Pero las verdaderas dificultades, el verdadero arte de la supervivencia, parecen residir en terrenos más sutiles. Lo que se necesita en esos terrenos es una especie de resiliencia psicológica, estar preparado para hacer frente a lo que venga. Estos cautivos ponen de manifiesto de manera cruda y dramática algo que sucede en las vidas de todo el mundo: las transiciones a través de las cuales uno deja de ser quien era.

«Las mujeres entre los quince y los cuarenta y cuatro años tienen más posibilidades de morir o de ser lesionadas o desfiguradas debido a la violencia masculina que debido al cáncer, la malaria y los accidentes de tráfico juntos»,