We have an abundance of rape and violence against women in this country and on this Earth, though it's almost never treated as a civil rights or huma… - Rebecca Solnit

Violence doesn’t have a race, a class, a religion, or a nationality, but it does have a gender.

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.

We are all the heroes of our own stories, and on of the arts of perspective is to see yourself small on the stage of another's story, to see the vast expanse of the world that is not about you, and to see your power, to make your life, to make others, or break them, to tell stories rather that be told by them.

I look over at my hero shelf and see Philip Levine, Rainer Maria Rilke, Virginia Woolf, Shunryu Suzuki, Adrienne Rich, Pablo Neruda, Subcomandante Marcos, Eduardo Galeano, James Baldwin. These books are, if they are instructions at all, instructions in extending our identities out into the world, human and nonhuman, in imagination as a great act of empathy that lifts you out of yourself, not locks you down into your gender.
(“80 Books No Woman Should Read”)