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Waging war is not a primary physical need.
Susan Griffin
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Susan Griffin
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: January 26
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... This is the paradox of vision: Sharp perception softens our existence in the world.
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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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One can find traces of every life in each life.
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What is buried in the past of one generation falls to the next to claim.
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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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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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Society, like nature, is one body, really.
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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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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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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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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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Perhaps every moment of time lived in human consciousness remains in the air around us.
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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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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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Every time I deny myself I commit a kind of suicide.
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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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There is always a time to make right what is wrong.
Susan Griffin
War starts in the mind, not in the body.
Susan Griffin
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.
Susan Griffin
