AtomicQuote

Rebecca Solnit Quote

[T]he radical geographer Iain Boal had prophesied, The longing for a better world will need to arise at the imagined meeting place of many movements of resistance, as many as there are sites of closure and exclusion. The resistance will be as transnational capitalism.

Rebecca Solnit

[T]he radical geographer Iain Boal had prophesied, The longing for a better world will need to arise at the imagined meeting place of many movements of resistance, as many as there are sites of closure and exclusion. The resistance will be as transnational capitalism.

Tags: longing, resistance

Related Quotes

Oh honey, someday a real man is going to make you see stars and you won't even be looking at the sky." Excerpt from Grace Willow's Last Minute Bride

Grace Willows

Oh honey, someday a real man is going to make you see stars and you won't even be looking at the sky." Excerpt from Grace Willow's Last Minute Bride

Tags: adventure, adventurous, alpha, alpha male, amour, betrayal, books, bordello, choice, comedy

I raised you so high that every other man on earth is now doomed to live in your shadow.

Ranata Suzuki

I raised you so high that every other man on earth is now doomed to live in your shadow.

Tags: always yours, amour, beautiful, break up, break ups, breakup, broken heart, deep love, deep thoughts, desire

Your smile and your laughter lit my whole world.

Ranata Suzuki

Your smile and your laughter lit my whole world.

Tags: always yours, amour, beautiful, break up, break ups, breakup, broken heart, deep love, deep thoughts, desire

You want help? Ask for help. You want love? Ask for love. If you want anything from the universe, anything from yourself, you must first ask.

Kamand Kojouri

You want help? Ask for help. You want love? Ask for love. If you want anything from the universe, anything from yourself, you must first ask.

Tags: aid, ask, asking, aspiration, aspire, claim, demand, desire, dream, goal

Lean in to kiss mein all the placeswhere the acheis the most special.

Sanober Khan

lean in to kiss mein all the placeswhere the acheis the most special.

Tags: ache, body, deep, desires, heart, kiss, kissing, longing, passion, poetry

Cathy, don't look so defeated. She was only trying to put us downagain.Maybe nothing did work out right for her, but that doesn't mean we aredoomed. Let's go forth tomorrow with no great expectations...

V.C. Andrews

Cathy, don't look so defeated. She was only trying to put us downagain.Maybe nothing did work out right for her, but that doesn't mean we aredoomed. Let's go forth tomorrow with no great expectations...

Tags: captive, decieved, defeat, defeated, doom, doomed, dreaming, expectations, fate, great expectations

Just one caress became a symphony of passion, insatiable longing, an unquenchable desire to possess.... Gasps... The sparkling touch, embrace make hard to breathe... A mere short burst of brilliance,...

Oksana Rus

Just one caress became a symphony of passion, insatiable longing, an unquenchable desire to possess.... Gasps... The sparkling touch, embrace make hard to breathe... A mere short burst of brilliance,...

Tags: art, artist, beach, brilliance, caress, dance, dancing, deep, desire, dive

With God, being lost is nothing more than an idea that never has and never will be anything more than an idea.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

With God, being lost is nothing more than an idea that never has and never will be anything more than an idea.

Tags: abandon, abandoned, assured, beliefs, confidence, faith, god, idea, ideas, longing

She had said he had been driven away from her by a dream...

Joseph Conrad

She had said he had been driven away from her by a dream...

Tags: bitter, breaking up, breakup, breakups, dream, dreaming, heart break, heart burn, heartache, indigestion

Being in love with your best friend is problematic.

J.M. Richards

Being in love with your best friend is problematic.

Tags: awesome, bandaids, best friend love, best friend, best friends, bitterness, davin, fate, first aid, friend
About Rebecca Solnit

Rebecca Solnit (born 1961) is an American writer and activist. She has written on a variety of subjects, including feminism, the environment, politics, place, and art.
Solnit is the author of seventeen books, including River of Shadows, which won the 2004 National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism; A Paradise Built in Hell, from 2009, which charts community responses to disaster; The Faraway Nearby, a wide-ranging memoir published in 2013; and Men Explain Things to Me, a collection of essays on feminism and women's writing first published in 2014.