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Rebecca Solnit

born 1961

Rebecca Solnit is an American writer, historian, and activist known for her work on social and environmental issues. She has authored numerous books, essays, and articles exploring topics such as feminism, power structures, and the environment, and is particularly recognized for her groundbreaking book "Men Explain Things to Me," which helped popularize the concept of mansplaining.

  1. The more we heat up the planet, the more it costs all of us, not just in money, but in colossal famines, displacements, deaths, and species extinctions, as well as in the loss of some of the things that make this planet a blue-green jewel, including its specialized habitats from the melting Arctic to bleaching coral reefs.

    Rebecca Solnit
    #environment#cost#extinction

  2. Every minute of every hour of every day you are making the world, just as you are making yourself, and you might as well do it with generosity and kindness and style.

    Rebecca Solnit
    #world#kindness#self-creation

  3. To live fully is to live with an awareness of the rumble of terror that undelies everything.

    Rebecca Solnit
    #life#awareness#fear