Rebecca Solnit Quotes about Survival

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The great majority of people are calm, resourceful, altruistic or even beyond altruistic, as they risk themselves for others. We improvise the conditions of survival beautifully.

The great majority of people are calm, resourceful, altruistic or even beyond altruistic, as they risk themselves for others. We improvise the conditions of survival beautifully.

Rebecca Solnit

People, Risk, Survival

"‘Paradise Built in Hell:’ How Disaster Brings Out the Best in People". Interview with Maia Szalavitz, March 22, 2011.

Having the right to show up and speak are basic to survival, to dignity, and to liberty.

Rebecca Solnit

Survival, Liberty, Dignity

Rebecca Solnit (2014). “Men Explain Things to Me: And Other Essays”, p.13, Granta Books

Credibility is a basic survival tool.

Rebecca Solnit

Survival, Tools, Credibility

"Men Explain Things to Me — Facts Didn’t Get in the Way" by Rebecca Solnit, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 20, 2012.

...the gym is a kind of wildlife preserve for bodily exertion. A preserve protects species whose habitat is vanishing elsewhere, and the gym (and home gym) accommodates the survival of bodies after the abandonment of the original sites of bodily exertion.

Rebecca Solnit

Home, Survival, Habitat

Rebecca Solnit Quotes about Survival

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