## Metadata - Author: [[Rebecca Solnit]] - Full Title: Whose Story Is This? - Category: #books ## Highlights - change begins on the margins and in the shadows and grows toward the center, that the center is a place of arrival and rarely one of real generation, ([Location 68](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07NSJK2N5&location=68)) - The actor Chris Evans did much better with this shift in perspective, saying, “The hardest thing to reconcile is that just because you have good intentions doesn’t mean it’s your time to have a voice.” ([Location 273](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07NSJK2N5&location=273)) - The unexamined life is not worth living, as the aphorism goes, but perhaps an honorable and informed life requires examining others’ lives, not just one’s own. Perhaps we do not know ourselves unless we know others. ([Location 404](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07NSJK2N5&location=404))