Rebecca Solnit Quotes

More and more I think of privatisation as being not just about the takeover of resources and power by corporate interests, but as the retreat of citizens to private life and private space, screened from solidarity with strangers and increasingly afraid or even unable to imagine acting in public.

Rebecca Solnit

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 24, 1961

Topics

LifePowerSpaceThinkActingMore

Sometimes I feel indie directors are in the game so they can make a film to get hired to do a big film - that we're all doing this person's reel.

John Cho

GameFeelDoingPersonSometimes

Talent works, genius creates.

Robert Schumann

TalentBrainyGeniusWorksCreates

For women, Neo-Confucianism placed extra emphasis on chastity, obedience, and diligence. A good wife should have no desire other than to serve her husband, no ambition other than to produce a son, and no interest beyond subjugating herself to her husband's family - meaning, among other things, she must never remarry if widowed.

Amanda Foreman

FamilyGoodWomenSonWifeAmbition

I think recent revelations about who's in what bed speak to the problems with what happened in the Gulf.

Stephanie Tubbs Jones

SpeakProblemsThinkBedHappened

All I can control is myself and just keep having a positive attitude.

Rose Namajunas

PositiveAttitudeMyselfControl

The physical environment of L.A. is really beautiful. It's actually kinda fun, too, if you're working. It's just not really fun if you're not working and you don't know anybody.

Rose Byrne

BeautifulFunEnvironmentYouKnow

There's something undeniably oxymoronic about a 'successful' rock n' roll band. Who wants to hear a bunch of success stories whining about their success? More importantly, what can be the drive behind a band, what can they have to rage against when they are successes? That's a dichotomy every successful band wrestles with.

Dexter Holland

SuccessDriveRockMoreBandRage

The world is shrinking, and everyone is majorly interested in Indian films now.

Dhanush

WorldNowEveryoneInterestedIndian

What people want is a sense of a better future to come.

Douglas Alexander

FuturePeopleBetterWantSense

We can all learn something from people we admire.

Chris Gardner

PeopleLearnAdmireSomething

I've never not felt relevant.

Bob Saget

NeverRelevantFelt

Hyperloop One will move people and things faster than at any other time in the world.

Shervin Pishevar

TimePeopleWorldWillThingsMove

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