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Quotes from Men Explain Things to Me — Rebecca Solnit

born 1961 United States

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Like racism, misogyny can never be adequately addressed by its victims alone. (p153)

Men Explain Things to Me (2014)

Kindness and gentleness never had a gender, and neither did empathy. (p34)

Men Explain Things to Me (2014)

The ability to tell your own story, in words or images, is already a victory, already a revolt. (p71)

Men Explain Things to Me (2014)

Think of how much more time and energy we would have to focus on other things that matter if we weren’t so busy surviving. (p35)

Men Explain Things to Me (2014)

The ways creative work gets done are always unpredictable, demanding room to roam, refusing schedules and systems. They cannot be reduced to replicable formulas. (p91)

Men Explain Things to Me (2014)

There’s no good reason (and many bad reasons) colleges spend more time telling women how to survive predators than telling the other half of their students not to be predators. (p30)

Men Explain Things to Me (2014)

Men explain things to me, still. And no man has ever apologized for explaining, wrongly, things that I know and they don't. (p7)

Men Explain Things to Me (2014)

The worst criticism seeks to have the last word and leave the rest of us in silence; the best opens up an exchange that need never end. (p94)

Men Explain Things to Me (2014)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Rebecca Solnit (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.