Rice Quotes by Judy Grahn

He called her: mother of pearl, barley woman, rice provider, millet basket, corn maid, flax princess, all-maker, weef She called him: fawn, roebuck, stag,…

— Judy Grahn

The shaman/priest/artist/teacher/leader does not operate for the sole benefit of herself and her kind but for the benefit of the people at large and…

— Judy Grahn

What you will do matters. All you need is to do it.

— Judy Grahn

Those who believe they are ugly / objectify the rest of us.

— Judy Grahn

From my mother, a rock, / I have learned that rocks give / most of all.

— Judy Grahn

Gay culture is far from 'marginal,' being rather 'intersectional,' the conduits between unlike beings.

— Judy Grahn

Gay people are not in the habit of thinking of ourselves as leading our civilization, and yet we do.

— Judy Grahn

The walls of the closet are guarded by the dogs of terror, and the inside of the closet is a house of mirrors.

— Judy Grahn

“Here, the sea strains to climb up on the land and the wind blows dust in a single direction. The trees bend themselves all…

— Judy Grahn

Woman is as common as a loaf of bread, and like a loaf of bread, will rise.

— Judy Grahn

We cannot live in the past, nor can we re-create it. Yet as we unravel the past, the future also unfolds before us, as…

— Judy Grahn

The tribal attitude said, and continues to say, that Gay people are especially empowered because we are able to identify with both sexes and…

— Judy Grahn