Finished reading Rebecca Solnit's latest, "Recollections of My Nonexistence." It's brilliant.
Some favorite passages.
"There’s a Buddhist phrase about the work of bodhisattvas: 'the liberation of all beings.' I see feminism as a subset of that work."
rebeccasolnit.net/book/recollect…
Some favorite passages.
"There’s a Buddhist phrase about the work of bodhisattvas: 'the liberation of all beings.' I see feminism as a subset of that work."
rebeccasolnit.net/book/recollect…
"Mostly when people write about the trauma of gender violence, it’s described as one awful, exceptional event or relationship, as though you suddenly fell into the water, but what if you’re swimming through it your whole life, and there is no dry land in sight?" -- Rebecca Solnit
"To be a young woman is to face your own annihilation in innumerable ways or to flee it or the knowledge of it, or all these things at once." -- Rebecca Solnit
"But I can wish that the young women who come after me might skip some of the old obstacles, and some of my writing has been toward that end, at least by naming those obstacles." -- Rebecca Solnit
"Mostly we hear from people who survive difficulties or break through barriers ... Not everyone makes it through, and what tries to kill you takes a lot of your energy that might be better used elsewhere and makes you tired and anxious." -- Rebecca Solnit
