Solnit Men Quotes

#1. It makes me really proud to be an Argentinean, to have the pope be Argentinian. Pope Francis has been incredible. My mother used to know him when he was in Argentina.

Juan Pablo Di Pace

#2. The implication that women as a category are unreliable and that false rape charges are the real issue is used to silence individual women and to avoid discussing sexual violence, and to make out men as the principal victims.

Rebecca Solnit

#3. Men explain things to me, still. And no man has ever apologized for explaining, wrongly, things that I know and they don't.

Rebecca Solnit

#4. Hysteria derives from the Greek word for "uterus," and the extreme emotional state it denotes was once thought to be due to a wandering womb; men were by definition

Rebecca Solnit

#5. There are comparatively few articles about whether men are happy or why their marriages also fail or how nice or not their bodies are, even the movie-star bodies.

Rebecca Solnit

#6. ...At the end of the day, what matters is our faith in humanity...

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#7. He might have been encased in a thick glass bubble, so separate did he feel from his three dining companions. It was a sensation with which he was only too familiar, that of walking in a giant sphere of worry, enclosed by it, watching his own terrors roll by, obscuring the outside world.

J.K. Rowling

#8. Some men explained why men explaining things to women wasn't really a gendered phenomenon. Usually, women pointed out that, in insisting on their right to dismiss the experiences women say they have, men succeeded in explaining in just the way I said they sometimes do.

Rebecca Solnit

#9. ...explaining men still assume I am, in some sort of obscene impregnation metaphor, an empty vessel to be filled with their wisdom and knowledge.

Rebecca Solnit

#10. Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

#11. Women's liberation has often been portrayed as a movement intent on encroaching upon or taking power and privilege away from men, as though in some dismal zero-sum game, only one gender at a time could be free and powerful.

Rebecca Solnit

#12. Eduardo Galeano notes that America was conquered, but not discovered, that the men who arrived with a religion to impose and dreams of gold never really knew where they were, and that this discovery is still taking place in our time.

Rebecca Solnit

#13. Men explain things to me, and other women, whether or not they know what they're talking about. Some men.

Rebecca Solnit

#14. When any person suffers for someone in greater need, that person is a human.

Cesar Chavez

#15. ...the Men Who Knew came out of the woodwork.

Rebecca Solnit

#16. And what am I? (Adron)
You're kind and decent. You have a good heart. (Livia)
I have no heart at all. What I have is a mechanical substitute that pumps blood through a broken body, and half the time it malfunctions. (Adron)

Sherrilyn Kenyon