Rebecca Solnit Quotes
Every woman who appears wrestles with the forces that would have her disappear. She struggles with the forces that would tell her story for her, or write her out of the story ... The ability to tell your own story, in words or images, is already a victory, already a revolt.
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I had set a goal of being a producer by 25.
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I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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There was a bit of a comparison that Bret was making between Vince McMahon and my dad. He looked up to Vince as a dad and stuff, and it was a shame to see the whole thing end the way it did.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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The opportunities I've had to play really complex characters - which haven't been a lot, but some - you never get over them.
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We are shallow because our media are so horribly shallow. Every morning, I peruse the papers, and there is so little to read in them. It is the same with radio - all that noise, that artifice.
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Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.
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When I was in high school, the genders were so separate from each other. If you weren't 'dating' somebody, you couldn't just be friends with somebody.
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Of course, the humans in Haiti have hope. They hope to leave.
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Some terror in the swishing tall grass seemed added to that of the diabolically pounding sea, and I started up crying aloud and disjointedly, 'Tiger? Tiger? Is it Tiger? Beast? Beast? Is it a Beast that I am afraid of?'
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Every time you smile, I smile And every time you shine, I'll shine for you.
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Only the heelOf splendid steelShall stand secure on sliding fate,When golden navies weep their freight.
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To the patient, any operation is momentous.
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I spent as much time writing proposals in '98 and '99 as I did writing scripts.
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I am pretty embroiled in moving on and moving forward with music.
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I needed to feed my family. I read a couple of the episodes. How can you keep on doing the same thing?
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Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.
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I've made it abundantly clear that I think that marriage is between a man and a woman.
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I'd always read omnivorously and often thought much literary fiction is read by young men and women in their 20s as substitutes for experience.
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I'm always amazed when young women who are having babies want their husbands to watch the babies come out. I would never allow anything like that.
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We've obviously got to forget about that and now go on to the best of our ability.
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Every woman who appears wrestles with the forces that would have her disappear. She struggles with the forces that would tell her story for her, or write her out of the story ... The ability to tell your own story, in words or images, is already a victory, already a revolt.
