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Quote by Rebecca Solnit

“We don't know what is going to happen, or how, or when, and that very uncertainty is the space of hope.”

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Rebecca Solnit is an American writer known for her works on environmental, cultural, political, and social issues. Her writing spans a wide range of topics, including nature, travel, gender, and power. Her books include 'Wanderlust', 'A Field Guide to Getting Lost', and 'The Faraway Nearby'. more

“I often walk my dog in the neighborhood, and I think about Chita living in this barrio. She had been born there and enjoyed being surrounded by family and people she had known all her life. Economic disparities resulting in the displacement of brown people from their own barrio emphasize a haunting and harsh reality that stands apart from my own childhood memories of this area now known as Barrio Viejo. Only the adobe structures stand as reminders of a past that now seems remote. In 2018, actor Diane Keaton paid $1.5 million for an adobe home in Barrio Viejo. The lopsidedness between the past and the present becomes crystal clear each time I walk Meyer Avenue: hardworking Chita could once afford to live there, while today her offspring, a university professor, cannot.”

Social Exclusion Changing Barrios Effects Of Gentrification Social Belonging

Author:Lydia R. Otero

“As if adult males were completely self-sufficient beings, as if a penis and a five o’clock shadow were all they would ever need to get by.”

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Book:The Leftovers

Source: The Leftovers

“Living in a small town [in India] was like living in a glass house!”

India Small Town Intrusion Small Town Life Intrusive Glass House Poking Nose

Book:I'm a Woman & I'm on SALE

Source: I'm a Woman & I'm on SALE

“Sane people did what their neighbours did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.”