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...the Men Who Knew came out of the woodwork.

…the Men Who Knew came out of the woodwork.
– Rebecca Solnit

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  1. …explaining men still assume I am, in some sort of obscene impregnation metaphor, an empty vessel to be filled with their wisdom and knowledge. – Rebecca Solnit
  2. When I knew people, I knew me and when I knew me, I knew people. – Mahrukh
  3. The art is not one of forgetting but letting go. And when everything else is gone, you can be rich in loss. – Rebecca Solnit
  4. If the body is the register of the real, then reading with one’s feet is real in a way reading with one’s eyes alone is not. – Rebecca Solnit
  5. … a certain kind of wanderlust can only be assuaged by the acts of the body itself in motion, not the motion of the car, boat, or plane. – Rebecca Solnit
  6. Pain serves a purpose. Without it you are in danger. What you cannot feel you cannot take care of. – Rebecca Solnit
  7. In contemporary parlance, sex is biological and gender is socially constructed. – Rebecca Solnit
  8. You can use the power of words to bury meaning or to excavate it. – Rebecca Solnit
  9. Like racism, misogyny can never be adequately addressed by its victims alone. – Rebecca Solnit
  10. Finding ways to appreciate advances without embracing complacency is a delicate task. – Rebecca Solnit
  11. At my glummest, I sometimes think women get to chose- between being punished for being unsubjugated and the continual punishment of subjugation. – Rebecca Solnit
  12. The self is also a creation, the principal work of your life, the crafting of which makes everyone an artist. – Rebecca Solnit
  13. Fear of making mistakes can itself become a huge mistake, one that prevents you from living, for life is risky and anything less is already loss. – Rebecca Solnit
  14. Earlier 18th-century literary language was not supple enough to connect the life of the imagination to that of the street. – Rebecca Solnit
  15. The magic of the street is the mingling of the errand and the epiphany. – Rebecca Solnit
  16. …I fear their false urgency, their call to speed, their insistence that travel is less important than arrival… – Rebecca Solnit
  17. No matter how deeply you come to know a place, you can keep coming back to know it more. – Rebecca Solnit
  18. I was being cured of soldiering on endlessly: my job was now to be still, which had become almost easy at last. – Rebecca Solnit
  19. To use language is to enter into the territory of categories, which are as necessary as they are dangerous. – Rebecca Solnit
  20. the revolt against brutality begins with a revolt against the language that hides that brutality. – Rebecca Solnit
  21. Silence is what allows people to suffer without recourse, what allows hypocrisies and lies to grow and flourish, crimes to go unpunished. – Rebecca Solnit
  22. A labyrinth is a symbolic journey . . . but it is a map we can really walk on, blurring the difference between map and world. – Rebecca Solnit
  23. Disenchantment is the blessing of becoming yourself. – Rebecca Solnit
  24. Writing is saying to no one and to everyone the things it is not possible to say to someone. – Rebecca Solnit
  25. Were revolutions ever really that we thought them to be? – Rebecca Solnit
  26. Were revolutions ever really what we thought them to be? – Rebecca Solnit
  27. A path is a prior interpretation of the best way to traverse a landscape. – Rebecca Solnit
  28. Despair is a form of certainty, certainty that the future will be a lot like the present or will decline from it. – Rebecca Solnit
  29. We make ourselves large or small, here or there, in our empathies. – Rebecca Solnit
  30. Perfection is a stick with which to beat the possible. – Rebecca Solnit
  31. The art is not one of forgetting but letting go – Rebecca Solnit
  32. I remember my own childhood vividly…I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn’t let adults know I knew. It would scare them – Maurice Sendak
  33. Men define intelligence, men define usefulness, men tell us what is beautiful, men even tell us what is womanly – Sally Kempton
  34. She understood children, and knew that they were adults handicapped by a humiliating disguise and had their adult qualities within them. – Rebecca West
  35. …all I knew were novels. It gave me pause, for a moment, that all my reference points were fiction, that all my narratives were lies. – Rebecca Makkai
  36. But that was the least of it. He knew the worst of her, and that was better. – Rebecca Scherm
  37. Grace hated lying, got no joy from it, and this was how she knew she wasn’t pathological. – Rebecca Scherm
  38. Nolan was the only one who knew the real Lexi Shaw, and that was exactly how I intended to keep it. – Rebecca Phillips
  39. Men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things. – Will Durant
  40. Maybe that is the one real division between men: wood men and desert men. – Kurban Said

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