658 Quotes by Rebecca Solnit

Like racism, misogyny can never be adequately addressed by its victims alone. The men who get it also understand that feminism is not a scheme to deprive men but a campaign to liberate us all.

Measured over too short a span, change becomes imperceptible; people mistake today’s peculiarities for eternal verities.

Inside the word “emergency” is “emerge”; from an emergency new things come forth. The old certainties are crumbling fast, but danger and possibility are sisters.

Hysteria derives from the Greek word for “uterus,” and the extreme emotional state it denotes was once thought to be due to a wandering womb; men were by definition.

A landscape full of places named after women and statues of women might have encouraged me and other girls in profound ways.

Imagining their trajectories, I picture a real road, branching and branching, and I can feel it, shadowy, forested, full of the anxiety and the excitement of choosing, of starting off without quite knowing where you will end up.

Men explain things to me, and other women, whether or not they know what they’re talking about. Some men.

The art is not one of forgetting but letting go.

Perfection is a stick with which to beat the possible. Perfectionists can find fault with anything, and no one has higher standards in this regard than leftists.