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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)

— Rebecca Solnit Men Explain Things to Me (2014)

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A coalition is by definition made up of people who have something in common, not everything in common.

I think of voting as a chess move, not a valentine.

I also read poetry—from Pablo Neruda to Warsan Shire—fairly regularly, and it keeps my sense of what words can do wide open and my sense of beauty awake.

The books I write often feel like the books I wanted to read, but they didn't exist, so I brought them into being.

A labyrinth is a symbolic journey … but it is a map we can really walk on, blurring the difference between map and world.

Wanderlust: A History of Walking (2000)

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