You can use the power of words to bury meaning or to excavate it. — 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
You can use the power of words to bury meaning or to excavate it. — 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
You can use the power of words to bury meaning or to excavate it. — Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me
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You can use the power of words to bury meaning or to excavate it.

— Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me
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