Susan Griffin

“In this sense, we can render the false meaning of catharsis which occurs in pornography with a different meaning than the catharsis…

— Susan Griffin

Yes we are devilish; that is true we cackle. Yes we are dark like the soil and wild like the animals. And…

— Susan Griffin

Ordinary women attempt to change our bodies to resemble a pornographic ideal. Ordinary women construct a false self and come to hate…

— Susan Griffin

“Lately I have come to believe that an as yet undiscovered human need and even a property of matter is the desire…

— Susan Griffin

“ There is a circle of humanity, he told me, and I can feel its warmth. But I am forever outside. ”

— Susan Griffin

Far more frightening than the thought of dying was the experience of erasure already occurring in my life. My fear of becoming…

— Susan Griffin

War starts in the mind, not in the body.

— Susan Griffin

What is buried in the past of one generation falls to the next to claim.

— Susan Griffin

Waging war is not a primary physical need.

— Susan Griffin

Self-reflection is a desire felt by the body, as well as the soul. As dancers, healers, and saints all know, when you…

— Susan Griffin

“Her womb from her body. Separation. Her clitoris from her vulva. Cleaving. Desire from her body. We were told that bodies rising…

— Susan Griffin

“The ability for a woman to be free is connected with her ability to love another woman.”

— Susan Griffin

“[...] we must recognize that in our own experience of emptiness, that even though one feels "empty", one must have a self…

— Susan Griffin

“When we hear that "war" is made for "peace", or that "pain" is sought for "pleasure" or that "brutality" helps one "feel",…

— Susan Griffin

In the system of chivalry, men protect women against men. This is not unlike the protection relationship which [organized crime] established with…

— Susan Griffin

In my lifetime I have seen democracy begin to expand, not only to include those who have been excluded, but to provide…

— Susan Griffin

Each time I write, each time the authentic words break through, I am changed. The older order that I was collapses and…

— Susan Griffin

We are the bird's eggs. Bird's eggs, flowers, butterflies, rabbits, cows, sheep, we are caterpillars; we are leaves of ivy and springs…

— Susan Griffin

Poetry is a good medium for revolutionary hope.

— Susan Griffin

To make love is to become like this infant again. We grope with our mouths toward the body of another being, whom…

— Susan Griffin

we are nature. We are nature seeing nature. We are nature with a concept of nature. Nature weeping. Nature speaking of nature…

— Susan Griffin

I think we actually punish children out of their relationship with their bodies... we categorically separate mind and body and emotion and…

— Susan Griffin

“The body remembers who we are supposed to be. And in this there is grief.”

— Susan Griffin

We keep secrets from ourselves that all along we know.

— Susan Griffin

“My father learned his disinterest under the guise of masculinity. Boys don’t cry. There are whole disciplines, institutions, rubrics in our culture…

— Susan Griffin