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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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Susan Griffin
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: January 26
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Environmentalist
Feminist
Poet
Screenwriter
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LA
California
Susan Griffin
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Deprivation

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Society, like nature, is one body, really.
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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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The mind can forget what the body, defined by each breath, subject to the heart beating, does not.
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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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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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Self-reflection is a desire felt by the body, as well as the soul. As dancers, healers, and saints all know, when you turn your attention toward even the simplest physical process - breath, the small movements of the eyes, the turning of a foot in midair - what might have seemed dull matter suddenly awakens.
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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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There is always a time to make right what is wrong.
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... This is the paradox of vision: Sharp perception softens our existence in the world.
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War starts in the mind, not in the body.
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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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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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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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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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Every time I deny myself I commit a kind of suicide.
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