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Poetry is a good medium for revolutionary hope.
Susan Griffin
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Susan Griffin
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: January 26
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Environmentalist
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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.
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A story is told as much by silence as by speech.
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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.
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Perhaps every moment of time lived in human consciousness remains in the air around us.
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The mind can forget what the body, defined by each breath, subject to the heart beating, does not.
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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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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.
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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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Before a secret is told, one can often feel the weight of it in the atmosphere.
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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.
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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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But still, the other voice, the intuitive, returns, like grass forcing its way through concrete.
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And if the professional rapist is to be separated from the average dominant heterosexual (male), it may be mainly a quantitative difference.
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There is always a time to make right what is wrong.
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What is buried in the past of one generation falls to the next to claim.
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I love that moment in writing when language falls short. There is something more there. A larger body. Even by the failure of words I begin to detect its dimensions. As I work the prose, shift the verbs, look for new adjectives, a different rhythm, syntax, something new begins to come to the surface.
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Society, like nature, is one body, really.
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Every time I deny myself I commit a kind of suicide.
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One can find traces of every life in each life.
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Waging war is not a primary physical need.
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