We live in such an age of chatter and distraction. Everything is a challenge for the ears and eyes.


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There's so much crap attached to acting: the fame aspect, the ego aspect, the 'Am I good, am...
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The world you live in is not a given; much of what is best in it has been built through the struggle...
REBECCA SOLNIT
I got a phone call saying we are from the News of the World, and we're exposing you and David Be...
REBECCA LOOS
…I’m afraid of what the digital age will do to the world, to the things we think are important�...
REBECCA MCNUTT
If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is...
REBECCA SOLNIT
What are you doing?” Alecto asked in surprise, stepping back. Laughing brightly, she dragged him t...
REBECCA MCNUTT
She dug into one of the boxes, finding clay angels she’d made in art class when she was seven year...
REBECCA MCNUTT
Winters are a desolate time where all senses are wiped away, and here in Canada, this is especially ...
REBECCA MCNUTT
The ones who hate me the most are the ones who don't scare me.
REBECCA MCKINSEY
Journalism is the ability to meet the challenge of filling space.
REBECCA WEST
The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.
REBECCA WEST
Man is a hating rather than a loving animal.
REBECCA WEST
I feel often that we don't have the right language to talk about emotions in disasters. Everyone...
REBECCA SOLNIT
I haven't heard of any cases of anti-American blog posts being censored or bloggers encountering...
REBECCA MACKINNON
I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into n...
REBECCA MILLER
I think for a long time it seemed like working in an art form and being a feminist meant portraying ...
REBECCA HALL
Would the Protestant Reformation have happened without the printing press? Would the American Revolu...
REBECCA MACKINNON
In the nineteenth century, in part because a ton of American men moved west, in part because of the ...
REBECCA TRAISTER
I'm a very private person. I barely tell my friends what's going on half the time, so the id...
REBECCA HALL
You scare me, Ryan Daley. Even more than those demons outside that scream for my death. How is it th...
REBECCA LIM
I think this industry can be tough on everyone. You have to surround yourself with supportive people...
REBECCA FERGUSON
It is time to stop debating whether the Internet is an effective tool for political expression and i...
REBECCA MACKINNON
Tell me again about the girl whose hands
have no color. Whose hands are completely
white. ...
REBECCA WADLINGER
A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting...
REBECCA WEST
Why hoard away so many back-issues of People Magazine? Fashion magazines are just empty promises. Yo...
REBECCA MCNUTT
Credibility is a basic survival tool.
REBECCA SOLNIT
As I started to pursue the subject more deeply I realized that walking was this wonderful meandering...
REBECCA SOLNIT
Even in democratic society, we don't have good answers how to balance the need for security on o...
REBECCA MACKINNON
Human freedom increasingly depends on who controls what we know and, therefore, how we understand ou...
REBECCA MACKINNON
One reason that we have collectively plugged our ears against a decade of dismal revelations about B...
REBECCA TRAISTER
Companies should have a due diligence process to determine the likelihood that their technologies wi...
REBECCA MACKINNON
I think I have a job, which is to present a character in a story and entertain you and divert you wi...
REBECCA HALL
People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a pr...
REBECCA WEST
I felt vulnerable and very much between friends. I remember walking down the hallway and thinking I ...
REBECCA STEAD
Ronald Reagan, when he was campaigning for President, said that he would break relations with Commun...
REBECCA MACKINNON
I want to try to make difficult people somehow relatable.
REBECCA HALL
I'm a diligent person, and that came directly from having hardworking parents.
REBECCA ROMIJN
Whether it's Baidu or Chinese versions of YouTube or Sina or Sohu, Chinese Internet sites are ge...
REBECCA MACKINNON
I think of myself as Rebecca Wells from Lodi Plantation, in Central Louisiana, a girl who was lucky ...
REBECCA WELLS