Rebecca Solnit Quote

Now, 75 years [after ], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

If you are on social media, and you are not learning, not laughing, not being inspired or not networking, then you are using it wrong.

On the other hand it is possible that human control over the machines may be retained. In that case the average man may have control over certain private machines of his own, such as his car of his pe...

Not being happy really is my fear.

Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.

Instead of being regarded as intelligent or knowledgeable, many a woman would rather be regarded as beautiful or good in the kitchen; many a man, as handsome or good in bed.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

Don't be in temper, to leave so quickly, that I may be dying. But all too soon, the leaves and debris will gather elsewhere.