Rebecca Quotes

I'm basically a computer science nerd.

Life is a mystery. Life is uncertain. It makes one feel a bit wobbly to realize that.

Thinking about quantum physics is like unraveling your brain and putting it back together again upside down. Much like studying Kabbalah.

I am always in awe of people who devote their lives to a good cause and are brave enough to take a stance, though it may be controversial in their time.

I think life throws enough curveballs that you shouldn't make such a big deal out of everything.

I guess I can be a little neurotic sometimes, but can't everybody?

I love uplifting television.

I really like listening to music when I'm hiking or exercising. I don't like hearing myself breathe.

Making people laugh is the greatest experience.

I try to break a sweat every day. It doesn't always happen that way, but that's the goal.

Movie making is really, it's a director's medium, it's not even so much an actor's medium.

When my husband kisses my ears. My ears turn me on like nothing else, they must be my most erogenous zone. Just having my ears kneaded is like a full body massage.

Living in Paris was a crash course in chic.

I'd never planned on being a model.

I get really bad plane bloat. Your body and your face and everything swells. I could never get rid of it. It stays with you.

I know you're not supposed to have TV in your room, but I like watching a little. I need something mindless.

I'm a diligent person, and that came directly from having hardworking parents.

Good science is all about following the data as it shows up and letting yourself be proven wrong, and letting everything change while you're working on it - and I think writing is the same way.

For scientists, growing cells took so much work that they couldn't get much research done. So the selling of cells was really just for the sake of science, and there weren't a lot of profits.

Walking, ideally, is a state in which the mind, the body, and the world are aligned.

Never turn down an adventure without a really good reason.

Given a choice between their worldview and the facts, it's always interesting how many people toss the facts.

Books are solitudes in which we meet.

Kindness and gentleness never had a gender, and neither did empathy.

People rescue each other. They build shelters and community kitchens and ways to deal with lost children and eventually rebuild one way or another.

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

...[Cabeza de Vaca] ceased to be lost not by returning but by turning into something else.

You get lost out of a desire to be lost. But in the place called lost strange things are found.

Walking allows us to be in our bodies and in the world without being made busy by them.

Sometimes a few passionate people change the world; sometimes they start a mass movement and millions do.

I see disaster everywhere; I also […] see generosity and resistance everywhere.

That's what I'm trying to get over: the idea that anarchism offers a description of equitable relations that go way back rather than a hypothesis of what the future should look like.

I'm grateful that, after an early life of being silenced, sometimes violently, I grew up to have a voice, circumstances that will always bind me to the rights of the voiceless.

Revolution is a phase, a mood, like spring, and just as spring has its buds and showers, so revolution has its ebullience, its bravery, its hope, and its solidarity. Some of these things pass.

....there are three prerequisites to going out into the world to walk for pleasure. One must have free time, a place to go, and a body unhindered by illness or social restraints.

...the questions a photographer raises may be more profound than the answers the medium permits.

Italian cities have long been held up as ideals, not least by New Yorkers and Londoners enthralled by the ways their architecture gives beauty and meaning to everyday acts.

We talk about politicians being in public life, but they seldom appear in the public space where everyone is free to appear as a citizen.

Violence doesn't have a race, a class, a religion, or a nationality, but it does have a gender.

I was fifteen, and when I picture myself then, I see flames shooting up, see myself falling off the edge of the world, and am amazed I survived not the outside world but the inside one.

Some things we have only as long as they remain lost, some things are not lost only so long as they are distant.

Women often find great roles in revolution, simply because the rules fall apart and everyone has agency, anyone can act.

We know less when we erroneously think we know than when we recognize that we don't.

Sometimes it seems that the fate of the world is decided entirely in the ether of electronic communications and corporate backroom deals.

The oil dinosaurs want to win so badly in my home state because what happens here matters everywhere. The nation often follows where California goes.

I am against resources being controlled by corporations, but that doesn't mean I want them controlled by the state.

There are disasters that are entirely manmade, but none that are entirely natural.

I'm a big fan of the vigor of civil society, political engagement, and public life in many parts of Latin America.

I've been gratified to see over the twenty or so years of my writing life the West become less of a colony of the East; maybe new technologies and too much travel undermine the idea of provinciality.

I was not going to surrender to the status quo and corporate insistence that ordinary people have no power and influence.