Rebecca Solnit
Rebecca Solnit
Rebecca Solnitis an American writer. She has written on a variety of subjects, including the environment, politics, place, and art. Solnit is a contributing editor at Harper's Magazine, where bi-monthly she writes the magazine's "Easy Chair" essay...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth11 June 1961
CountryUnited States of America
moving communication hands
We are moving into a world of unaccountable and secretive corporations that manage all our communications and work hand in hand with governments to make us visible to them. Our privacy is being strip-mined and hoarded.
journey parades audience
A procession is a participants' journey, while a parade is a performance with an audience.
trekking strolling walking
Walking articulates both physical and mental freedom.
mind world body
Walking, ideally, is a state in which the mind, the body, and the world are aligned...
profound answers may
...the questions a photographer raises may be more profound than the answers the medium permits.
men battle library
The battle with Men Who Explain Things has trampled down many women — of my generation, of the up-and-coming generation we need so badly, here and in Pakistan and Bolivia and Java, not to speak of the countless women who came before me and were not allowed into the laboratory, or the library, or the conversation, or the revolution, or even the category called human.
thinking data focus
There is so much information that our ability to focus on any piece of it is interrupted by other information, so that we bathe in information but hardly absorb or analyse it. Data are interrupted by other data before we've thought about the first round, and contemplating three streams of data at once may be a way to think about none of them.
time thinking phones
When I think about, say, 1995, or whever the last moment was before most of us were on the internet and had mobile phones, it seems like a hundred years ago. ... Time passed in fairly large units, or at least not in milliseconds and constant updates. A few hours wasn't such a long time to go between moments of contact with your work, your people or your trivia.
self practice people
There 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.
thinking people political
A lot of people think of political activism as some grim duty, and I think we do have an obligation to be citizens - to be informed and engaged.
reading age stories
No one is born a writer; literacy is a peculiar mode of being, but I was all about stories from a very early age, before reading.
stories landscape decided
For me, before I learned how to read I was really interested in story and in landscape and nature. I decided to become a writer almost as soon as I learned to read.
thinking people way
I think that walking down the middle of the street with several thousand people who share your deepest beliefs is one of the best ways to take a walk.
what-matters style pleasure
You don't have to be a preacher to talk about what matters, and you don't have to drop the pleasures of style