Stories are compasses and architecture, we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be without a story is to be lost in the vastness of a world that spreads in all directions like arctic tundra or sea ice.
Rebecca SolnitViolence doesn't have a race, a class, a religion, or a nationality, but it does have a gender.
Rebecca SolnitI'm a big fan of the vigor of civil society, political engagement, and public life in many parts of Latin America.
Rebecca SolnitI sometimes wonder what those of us who are writers would become in a nonliterary culture - storytellers? Hermits?
Rebecca Solnit