Consciousness Remains Quotes by Susan Griffin

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

Is it a coincidence that stories from the private life became more popular just as the grand hope for public redemption through revolution was…

— Susan Griffin

How many small decisions accumulate to form a habit? What a multitude of decisions, made by others, in other times, must shape our lives…

— 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…

— Susan Griffin

Gender is a way to hide from the simple truth we all tell: 'Hey, I'm here, I have a body.'

— Susan Griffin

“I am not so different in my history of abandonment from anyone else after all. We have all been split away from each other,…

— Susan Griffin

“[P]erhaps we are like stones; our own history and the history of the world embedded in us, we hold a sorrow deep within and…

— Susan Griffin

“The world of fundamental religion does not recognize even the slightest variation in meaning should this meaning fall outside its own definition of truth.”

— Susan Griffin

We are nature. We are nature seeing nature. The red-winged blackbird flies in us.

— Susan Griffin

Before a secret is told, one can often feel the weight of it in the atmosphere.

— Susan Griffin

What always seems miraculous is when aesthetic necessities yield an insight which otherwise I would have missed.

— Susan Griffin

A story is told as much by silence as by speech.

— Susan Griffin