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A story is told as much by silence as by speech.
Susan Griffin
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Susan Griffin
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: January 26
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Ordinary women attempt to change our bodies to resemble a pornographic ideal. Ordinary women construct a false self and come to hate this self.
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Poetry is a good medium for revolutionary hope.
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This earth is my sister I love her daily grace, her silent daring, and how loved I am. How we admire this strength in each other, all that we have lost, all that we have suffered, all that we know: We are stunned by this beauty, and I do not forget: what she is to me, what I am to her.
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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.
Susan Griffin
The mind can forget what the body, defined by each breath, subject to the heart beating, does not.
Susan Griffin
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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Waging war is not a primary physical need.
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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
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
Every time I deny myself I commit a kind of suicide.
Susan Griffin
There is always a time to make right what is wrong.
Susan Griffin
... This is the paradox of vision: Sharp perception softens our existence in the world.
Susan Griffin
What always seems miraculous is when aesthetic necessities yield an insight which otherwise I would have missed.
Susan Griffin
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
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
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
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
War starts in the mind, not in the body.
Susan Griffin
Society, like nature, is one body, really.
Susan Griffin
What is buried in the past of one generation falls to the next to claim.
Susan Griffin