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> [“We heard of this woman who was out of control. We heard that she was led by her feelings. That her emotions were violent. That she was impetuous. That she violated tradition and overrode convention. That certainly her life should…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-griffin/we-heard-of-this-woman-who-was-out-of-control-we-heard-that-she-was/)

[Susan Griffin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-griffin/)

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## More 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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-griffin/telling-a-story-of-illness-one-pulls-a-thread-through-a-narrow/)

[Susan Griffin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-griffin/is-it-a-coincidence-that-stories-from-the-private-life-became-more/)

[Susan Griffin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-griffin/how-many-small-decisions-accumulate-to-form-a-habit-what-a-multitude/)

[Susan Griffin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-griffin/just-as-the-slave-master-required-the-slaves-to-imitate-the-image-he/)

[Susan Griffin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-griffin/)

> [Gender is a way to hide from the simple truth we all tell: 'Hey, I'm here, I have a body.'](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-griffin/gender-is-a-way-to-hide-from-the-simple-truth-we-all-tell-hey-i-m/)

[Susan Griffin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-griffin/i-am-not-so-different-in-my-history-of-abandonment-from-anyone-else/)

[Susan Griffin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-griffin/p-erhaps-we-are-like-stones-our-own-history-and-the-history-of-the/)

[Susan Griffin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-griffin/the-world-of-fundamental-religion-does-not-recognize-even-the/)

[Susan Griffin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-griffin/)

> [We are nature. We are nature seeing nature. The red-winged blackbird flies in us.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-griffin/we-are-nature-we-are-nature-seeing-nature-the-red-winged-blackbird/)

[Susan Griffin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-griffin/)

> [Before a secret is told, one can often feel the weight of it in the atmosphere.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-griffin/before-a-secret-is-told-one-can-often-feel-the-weight-of-it-in-the/)

[Susan Griffin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-griffin/)

> [What always seems miraculous is when aesthetic necessities yield an insight which otherwise I would have missed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-griffin/what-always-seems-miraculous-is-when-aesthetic-necessities-yield-an/)

[Susan Griffin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-griffin/)

> [A story is told as much by silence as by speech.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-griffin/a-story-is-told-as-much-by-silence-as-by-speech/)

[Susan Griffin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-griffin/)

> [And if the professional rapist is to be separated from the average dominant heterosexual (male), it may be mainly a quantitative difference.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-griffin/and-if-the-professional-rapist-is-to-be-separated-from-the-average/)

[Susan Griffin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-griffin/)

> [“If these pages are thick with death, think of the battlefield. Corpses in different stages of decay, the slowly dying, moments of death exist…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-griffin/if-these-pages-are-thick-with-death-think-of-the-battlefield-corpses/)

[Susan Griffin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-griffin/)

> [“We heard of this woman who was out of control. We heard that she was led by her feelings. That her emotions were violent.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-griffin/we-heard-of-this-woman-who-was-out-of-control-we-heard-that-she-was/)

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