Rebecca Solnit is the author of twelve books, including 2007's Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics, 2005's A Field Guide to Getting Lost,
If you tell people that they can’t change anything, then it’s safe for them to go home and watch sitcoms. But if you tell people they’re responsible for what the world is like, they have to do something.
–Me, quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle, June 13th, 2004