Since the Seattle surprise, it's become standard practice to erect a miniature police state around any globalization summit, and these rights free zo… - Rebecca Solnit

We need to stop telling the story about the woman who stayed home, passive and dependent, waiting for her man. She wasn't sitting around waiting. She was busy. She still is.

Writing is saying to no one and to everyone the things it is not possible to say to someone.

The attack on truth and language makes the atrocities possible. If you can erase what has happened, silence the witnesses, convince people of the merit of supporting a lie, if you can terrorize people into silence, obedience, lies, if you can make the task of determining what is true so impossible or dangerous they stop trying, you can perpetuate your crimes.