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I think one of the primary goals of a feminist landscape architecture would be to work toward a public landscape in which we can roam the streets at midnight, in which every square is available for Virginia Woolf to make up her novels

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Rebecca Solnit
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 26
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