Rebecca Solnit Quotes About Survival

Quotes about: Survival

• ...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

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

• There are those who receive as birthright an adequate or at least unquestioned sense of self and those who set out to reinvent themselves, for survival or for satisfaction, and travel far. Some people inherit values and practices as a house they inhabit; some of us have to burn down that house, find our own ground, build from scratch, even as a psychological metamorphosis.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Self, Practice, People

  Rebecca Solnit (2010). “A Field Guide To Getting Lost”, p.54, Canongate Books

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