A better world, yes; a perfect world, never. (p82) - Rebecca Solnit

Memory, even in the rest of us, is a shifting, fading, partial thing, a net that doesn't catch all the fish by any means and sometimes catches butterflies that don't exist.

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)

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