Credibility is a basic survival tool.

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• Rebecca Solnit:

  Men explain things to me, still. And no man has ever apologized for explaining, wrongly, things tha

• Rebecca Solnit:

  Having the right to show up and speak are basic to survival, to dignity, and to liberty.

• Rebecca Solnit:

  I'm grateful that, after an early life of being silenced, sometimes violently, I grew up to have a

• Rebecca Solnit:

  The great majority of people are calm, resourceful, altruistic or even beyond altruistic, as they r

• Rebecca Solnit:

  People rescue each other. They build shelters and community kitchens and ways to deal with lost chi

• Rebecca Solnit:

  I feel often that we don't have the right language to talk about emotions in disasters. Everyone is

• Rebecca Solnit:

  We have a real role in how our own collective lives, our nation, and our world and society turn out

• Rebecca Solnit:

  It's not that bad things never happen. But there's a pattern in which most people are calm, resourc

• Rebecca Solnit:

  Panic is rare, looting is essentially insignificant, people are not terrified and trampling each ot

• Rebecca Solnit:

  To say that everything without exception is going straight to hell is not an alternative vision but