Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things To Me Quotes
The ability to tell your own story, in words or images, is already a victory, already a revolt.
You can use the power of words to bury meaning or to excavate it.
...explaining men still assume I am, in some sort of obscene impregnation metaphor, an empty vessel to be filled with their wisdom and knowledge.
Like racism, misogyny can never be adequately addressed by its victims alone.
Finding ways to appreciate advances without embracing complacency is a delicate task.
The backlash against feminism remains savage, strong, and omnipresent, but it is not winning. The world has changed profoundly, and it needs to change far more.
At my glummest, I sometimes think women get to chose- between being punished for being unsubjugated and the continual punishment of subjugation.
Despair is a form of certainty, certainty that the future will be a lot like the present or will decline from it.
