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Susan Griffin Quotes: "And if the professional rapist is to be separated from the average dominant heterosexual (male), it may be mainly a quantitative difference."

And if the professional rapist is to be separated from the average dominant heterosexual (male), it may be mainly a quantitative difference.



Susan Griffin Quotes: "In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism."

In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism.




Susan Griffin Quotes: "Philosophy means nothing unless it is connected to birth, death, and the continuance of life. Anytime you are going to build a society that works, you have to begin from nature and the body."

Philosophy means nothing unless it is connected to birth, death, and the continuance of life. Anytime you are going to build a society that works, you have to begin from nature and the body.



Susan Griffin Quotes: "Poetry is a good medium for revolutionary hope."

Poetry is a good medium for revolutionary hope.




Susan Griffin Quotes: "The mind can forget what the body, defined by each breath, subject to the heart beating, does not."

The mind can forget what the body, defined by each breath, subject to the heart beating, does not.



Susan Griffin Quotes: "I think artists can go to a level of vision that can often save us from a situation which seems to have no solution whatsoever."

I think artists can go to a level of vision that can often save us from a situation which seems to have no solution whatsoever.



Susan Griffin Quotes: "Before a secret is told, one can often feel the weight of it in the atmosphere."

Before a secret is told, one can often feel the weight of it in the atmosphere.




Susan Griffin Quotes: "we are nature. We are nature seeing nature. We are nature with a concept of nature. Nature weeping. Nature speaking of nature to nature."

we are nature. We are nature seeing nature. We are nature with a concept of nature. Nature weeping. Nature speaking of nature to nature.



Susan Griffin Quotes: "It is a grief over the fate of the Earth that contains within it a joyful hope, that we might reclaim this Earth."

It is a grief over the fate of the Earth that contains within it a joyful hope, that we might reclaim this Earth.



Susan Griffin Quotes: "... This is the paradox of vision: Sharp perception softens our existence in the world."

... This is the paradox of vision: Sharp perception softens our existence in the world.



Susan Griffin Quotes: "What is buried in the past of one generation falls to the next to claim."

What is buried in the past of one generation falls to the next to claim.



Susan Griffin Quotes: "I am not so different in my history of abandonment from anyone else after all. We have all been split away from the earth, each other, ourselves."

I am not so different in my history of abandonment from anyone else after all. We have all been split away from the earth, each other, ourselves.




Susan Griffin Quotes: "Even in the grimmest of circumstances, a shift in perspective can create startling change."

Even in the grimmest of circumstances, a shift in perspective can create startling change.



Susan Griffin Quotes: "One can find traces of every life in each life."

One can find traces of every life in each life.



Susan Griffin Quotes: "Society, like nature, is one body, really."

Society, like nature, is one body, really.



Susan Griffin Quotes: "At the museum a troubled woman destroys a sand painting meticulously created over days by Tibetan monks. The monks are not disturbed. The work is a meditation. They simply begin again."

At the museum a troubled woman destroys a sand painting meticulously created over days by Tibetan monks. The monks are not disturbed. The work is a meditation. They simply begin again.



Susan Griffin Quotes: "We are nature. We are nature seeing nature. The red-winged blackbird flies in us."

We are nature. We are nature seeing nature. The red-winged blackbird flies in us.



Susan Griffin Quotes: "But still, the other voice, the intuitive, returns, like grass forcing its way through concrete."

But still, the other voice, the intuitive, returns, like grass forcing its way through concrete.



Susan Griffin Quotes: "Each life reverberates in every other life. Whether or not we acknowledge it, we are connected, woven together in our needs and desires, rich and poor, men and women alike."

Each life reverberates in every other life. Whether or not we acknowledge it, we are connected, woven together in our needs and desires, rich and poor, men and women alike.



Susan Griffin Quotes: "We keep secrets from ourselves that all along we know."

We keep secrets from ourselves that all along we know.



Susan Griffin Quotes: "What always seems miraculous is when aesthetic necessities yield an insight which otherwise I would have missed."

What always seems miraculous is when aesthetic necessities yield an insight which otherwise I would have missed.



Susan Griffin Quotes: "Language is filled with words for deprivation images so familiar it is hard to crack language open into that other country the country of being."

Language is filled with words for deprivation images so familiar it is hard to crack language open into that other country the country of being.



Susan Griffin Quotes: "Susan Bordo’s Unbearable Weight is a masterpiece of complex an nuanced thinking not only about a significant problem that faces women but about our culture. A very valuable book."

Susan Bordo’s Unbearable Weight is a masterpiece of complex an nuanced thinking not only about a significant problem that faces women but about our culture. A very valuable book.



Susan Griffin Quotes: "Ordinary women attempt to change our bodies to resemble a pornographic ideal. Ordinary women construct a false self and come to hate this self."

Ordinary women attempt to change our bodies to resemble a pornographic ideal. Ordinary women construct a false self and come to hate this self.



Susan Griffin Quotes: "How many small decisions accumulate to form a habit? What a multitude of decisions, made by others, in other times, must shape our lives now."

How many small decisions accumulate to form a habit? What a multitude of decisions, made by others, in other times, must shape our lives now.



Susan Griffin Quotes: "Telling a story of illness, one pulls a thread through a narrow opening flanked on one side by shame and the other by trivia."

Telling a story of illness, one pulls a thread through a narrow opening flanked on one side by shame and the other by trivia.



Susan Griffin Quotes: "Waging war is not a primary physical need."

Waging war is not a primary physical need.



Susan Griffin Quotes: "Perhaps every moment of time lived in human consciousness remains in the air around us."

Perhaps every moment of time lived in human consciousness remains in the air around us.



Susan Griffin Quotes: "Every time I deny myself I commit a kind of suicide."

Every time I deny myself I commit a kind of suicide.



Susan Griffin Quotes: "There is always a time to make right what is wrong."

There is always a time to make right what is wrong.



Susan Griffin Quotes: "War starts in the mind, not in the body."

War starts in the mind, not in the body.



Susan Griffin Quotes: "Far more frightening than the thought of dying was the experience of erasure already occurring in my life. My fear of becoming someone who did not count."

Far more frightening than the thought of dying was the experience of erasure already occurring in my life. My fear of becoming someone who did not count.



Susan Griffin Quotes: "The body remembers who we are supposed to be. And in this there is grief."

The body remembers who we are supposed to be. And in this there is grief.



Susan Griffin Quotes: "His insights have come to him through a crack in the veneer of civilization, which was also a crack in his own soul. He had the courage to look in this direction."

His insights have come to him through a crack in the veneer of civilization, which was also a crack in his own soul. He had the courage to look in this direction.



Susan Griffin Quotes: "What at one time one refuses to see never vanishes but returns, again and again, in many forms."

What at one time one refuses to see never vanishes but returns, again and again, in many forms.



Susan Griffin Quotes: "I am not so different in my history of abandonment from anyone else after all. We have all been split away from each other, the earth, ourselves."

I am not so different in my history of abandonment from anyone else after all. We have all been split away from each other, the earth, ourselves.



Susan Griffin Quotes: "The world of fundamental religion does not recognize even the slightest variation in meaning should this meaning fall outside its own definition of truth."

The world of fundamental religion does not recognize even the slightest variation in meaning should this meaning fall outside its own definition of truth.



Susan Griffin Quotes: "Before a secret is told one can often feel the weight of it in the atmosphere."

Before a secret is told one can often feel the weight of it in the atmosphere.



Susan Griffin Quotes: "I think we actually punish children out of their relationship with their bodies... we categorically separate mind and body and emotion and intellect."

I think we actually punish children out of their relationship with their bodies... we categorically separate mind and body and emotion and intellect.