I'm grateful that, after an early life of being silenced, sometimes violently, I grew up to have a voice, circumstances that will always bind me to the rights of the voiceless.
Rebecca SolnitRevolution is as unpredictable as an earthquake and as beautiful as spring. Its coming is always a surprise, but its nature should not be.
Rebecca SolnitHow will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?" (Plato) The things we want are transformative, and we donโt know or only think we know what is on the other side of that transformation. Love, wisdom, grace, inspiration- how do you go about finding these things that are in some ways about extending the boundaries of the self into unknown territory, about becoming someone else?
Rebecca SolnitI sometimes wonder what those of us who are writers would become in a nonliterary culture - storytellers? Hermits?
Rebecca Solnit