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

Susan Griffin

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Susan Griffin
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: January 26
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Environmentalist
Feminist
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
LA
California
Susan Griffin
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What is buried in the past of one generation falls to the next to claim.
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Yes we are devilish that is true we cackle. Yes we are dark like the soil and wild like the animals. And we turn to each other and stare into this darkness. We find it beautiful. We find this darkness irresistible. We cease all hiding.
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But still, the other voice, the intuitive, returns, like grass forcing its way through concrete.
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Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female.
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we are nature. We are nature seeing nature. We are nature with a concept of nature. Nature weeping. Nature speaking of nature to nature.
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Before a secret is told, one can often feel the weight of it in the atmosphere.
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One can find traces of every life in each life.
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Self-reflection is a desire felt by the body, as well as the soul. As dancers, healers, and saints all know, when you turn your attention toward even the simplest physical process - breath, the small movements of the eyes, the turning of a foot in midair - what might have seemed dull matter suddenly awakens.
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A story is told as much by silence as by speech.
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Poetry is a good medium for revolutionary hope.
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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.
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Each time I write, each time the authentic words break through, I am changed. The older order that I was collapses and dies. I lose control. I do not know exactly what words will appear on the page. I follow language. I follow the sound of the words, and I am surprised and transformed by what I record.
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... This is the paradox of vision: Sharp perception softens our existence in the world.
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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.
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Every time I deny myself I commit a kind of suicide.
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