Lynn

“... the task of finding one's own way must be immeasurably harder when all the heroes, all the protagonists, are not only another gender but another race, or another sexual orientation, and when you find that you yourself are described as savages or the servants or the people who don't matter. There are so many forms of annihilation.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir

“You furnish your mind with readings in somewhat the same way you furnish a house with books.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir

“... the outsiders stick together because their differences from each other are insignificant in the face of their differences from a hostile mainstream.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir

“A manilla envelope came through the mail slot a few weeks later. I had a little queasiness about meeting that teenager directly, and so I waited several years to open it.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir