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What is buried in the past of one generation falls to the next to claim.
Susan Griffin
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Susan Griffin
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: January 26
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In the system of chivalry, men protect women against men. This is not unlike the protection relationship which [organized crime] established with small businesses in the early part of this century. Indeed, chivalry is an age-old protection racket which depends for its existence on rape.
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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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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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War starts in the mind, not in the body.
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Every time I deny myself I commit a kind of suicide.
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But still, the other voice, the intuitive, returns, like grass forcing its way through concrete.
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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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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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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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Society, like nature, is one body, really.
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What always seems miraculous is when aesthetic necessities yield an insight which otherwise I would have missed.
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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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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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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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... This is the paradox of vision: Sharp perception softens our existence in the world.
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One can find traces of every life in each life.
Susan Griffin
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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The mind can forget what the body, defined by each breath, subject to the heart beating, does not.
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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
Before a secret is told, one can often feel the weight of it in the atmosphere.
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