Sometimes a few passionate people change the world; sometimes they start a mass movement and millions do.
Rebecca SolnitToo many of us seem far too fond of narratives of our powerlessness, maybe because powerlessness lets us off the hook... But we don't need everyone on board; we don't need one magic person in office; we need ourselves. To act. It's the wind, not the weathervanes.
Rebecca SolnitWriting is saying to no one and to everyone the things it is not possible to say to someone.
Rebecca SolnitThe object we call a book is not the real book, but its potential, like a musical score or seed. It exists fully only in the act of being read; and its real home is inside the head of the reader, where the symphony resounds, the seed germinates. A book is a heart that only beats in the chest of another.
Rebecca Solnit