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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.

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Susan Griffin
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: January 26
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Environmentalist
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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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Perhaps every moment of time lived in human consciousness remains in the air around us.
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Before a secret is told, one can often feel the weight of it in the atmosphere.
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Every time I deny myself I commit a kind of suicide.
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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.
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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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The mind can forget what the body, defined by each breath, subject to the heart beating, does not.
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War starts in the mind, not in the body.
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But still, the other voice, the intuitive, returns, like grass forcing its way through concrete.
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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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A story is told as much by silence as by speech.
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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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What always seems miraculous is when aesthetic necessities yield an insight which otherwise I would have missed.
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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.
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Poetry is a good medium for revolutionary hope.
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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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One can find traces of every life in each life.
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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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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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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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