Quotes by Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me

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Finding ways to appreciate advances without embracing complacency is a delicate task. It involves being hopeful and moti — Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me
The ability to tell your own story, in words or images, is already a victory, already a revolt. — Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me
How can I tell a story we already know too well? Her name was Africa. His was France. He colonized her, exploited her, s — Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me
You can use the power of words to bury meaning or to excavate it. — Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me
I like incidents of that sort, when forces that are usually so sneaky and hard to point out slither out of the grass and — Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me
...the Men Who Knew came out of the woodwork. — Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me
Every woman knows what I'm talking about. It's the presumption that makes it hard, at times, for any woman in any field; — Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me
...explaining men still assume I am, in some sort of obscene impregnation metaphor, an empty vessel to be filled with th — Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me
It's the way some med say, "I'm not the problem" or that they shifted the conversation from actual corpses and victims a — Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me
It's the way some men say, 'I'm not the problem' or that they shifted the conversation from actual corpses and victims a — Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me
Like racism, misogyny can never be adequately addressed by its victims alone. — Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me
Finding ways to appreciate advances without embracing complacency is a delicate task. — Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me
The backlash against feminism remains savage, strong, and omnipresent, but it is not winning. The world has changed prof — Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me
Of course, women are capable of all sorts of major unpleasantness, and there are violent crimes by women, but the so-cal — Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me
It's rare that anyone says what this medical study does, even if in the driest way possible "Being male has been identif — Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me
I've learned that a certain amount of self-doubt is a good tool for correcting, understanding, listening, and progressin — Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me
That made clear to me the continuum that stretches from minor social minor to violent silencing and violent death (and I — Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me
Some women get erased a little at a time, some all at once. Some reappear. Every woman who appears wrestles with the for — Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me
We have an abundance of rape and violence against women in this country and on this Earth, though it's almost never trea — Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me
Women in the online gaming community have been harassed, threatened, and driven out. Anita Sarkeesian, a feminist media — Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me