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Rebecca Solnit Quotes

Having the right to show up and speak are basic to survival, to dignity, and to liberty.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Speak Survival Dignity Liberty Right

We should have won the pennant that year. It was the best club I was ever on.

Best Year Club Should Won Ever

ACT and SAT each have their own parts of the country. The GRE has its lock on graduate admissions. And so, one could blame the companies, but really, economically, they have no incentive to change things very much because they're getting the business.

Robert Sternberg

Change Business Blame Graduation Own

To join or not to join films was the biggest choice I had to make. I'd done two years of biogenetic engineering, was an economics graduate and a gold medalist. I had also been a Bharatanatyam dancer from age five, always won the best actress award in school. Finally, I decided to do things for my soul, chose to act.

Age Best Soul School Economics Gold

Marriage is no longer the main way in which societies regulate sexuality and parenting or organize the division of labor between men and women.

Stephanie Coontz

Marriage Women Parenting Men Labor

I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist.

World Revenge Famous Becoming Get

What I've learned to do is arrest my addiction - arrest it myself, so I don't get arrested.

Myself Addiction Get Arrest Arrested

I still believe a majority of Republicans are for income tax cuts.

Believe Tax Income Tax Income Still

All great comedians make me laugh, but people make me laugh more.

Great People Me Laugh More Make

The government continues to erode our freedom.

Freedom Government Our

All my friends and peers keep asking me when I'm going to rest - I just tell them it's another dirty four-letter word!

Me Rest Friends Dirty Tell Asking

I've done a lot of pictures that are ensemble, and I've not always liked the people I was working with, but that doesn't make any difference because you do the job, and often it turns out to be a great ensemble even if you didn't particularly really like anybody.

Christopher Plummer

Great Job People You Pictures Done

A lot of times black folks look for love in all the wrong places. You're always looking for somebody to love you, be accepted, and there's the insecurities that are even transmitted through rap. Everyone is trying to aim to please too much.

Love Looking Black Trying You Look

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