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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.
Susan Griffin
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Susan Griffin
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: January 26
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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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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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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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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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Poetry is a good medium for revolutionary hope.
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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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A story is told as much by silence as by speech.
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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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There is always a time to make right what is wrong.
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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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But still, the other voice, the intuitive, returns, like grass forcing its way through concrete.
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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 is buried in the past of one generation falls to the next to claim.
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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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Before a secret is told, one can often feel the weight of it in the atmosphere.
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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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Waging war is not a primary physical need.
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