Thinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production - oriented society and doing nothing is hard to do. It's best done by disguising it as doing something and the something closest to doing nothing is walking.
Rebecca SolnitHaving the right to show up and speak are basic to survival, to dignity, and to liberty.
Rebecca SolnitWe talk about politicians being in public life, but they seldom appear in the public space where everyone is free to appear as a citizen.
Rebecca SolnitThere are those who receive as birthright an adequate or at least unquestioned sense of self and those who set out to reinvent themselves, for survival or for satisfaction, and travel far. Some people inherit values and practices as a house they inhabit; some of us have to burn down that house, find our own ground, build from scratch, even as a psychological metamorphosis.
Rebecca Solnit