Susan Griffin Quotes

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• A story is told as much by silence as by speech.
• There is always a time to make right what is wrong.
• And if the professional rapist is to be separated from the average dominant heterosexual (male), it may be mainly a quantitative difference.
• Although the many virtues that courtesans possessed were employed to defy circumstances, the role they played depended on the same circumstances over which they triumphed-…
• The hope you feel when you are in love is not necessarily for anything in particular. Love brings something inside you to life. Perhaps it…
• Every important social movement reconfigures the world in the imagination. What was obscure comes forward, lies are revealed, memory shaken, new delineations drawn over the…
• Poetry is a good medium for revolutionary hope.
• Is it a coincidence that stories from the private life became more popular just as the grand hope for public redemption through revolution was beginning…
• How many small decisions accumulate to form a habit? What a multitude of decisions, made by others, in other times, must shape our lives now.
• The hard surface of the stone is impervious to nothing in the end. The heat of the sun leaves evidence of daylight. Each drop of…
• In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism.
• Each life reverberates in every other life. Whether or not we acknowledge it, we are connected, woven together in our needs and desires, rich and…
• Even in the grimmest of circumstances, a shift in perspective can create startling change.
• To make love is to become like this infant again. We grope with our mouths toward the body of another being, whom we trust, who…
• 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…
• We are nature. We are nature seeing nature. The red-winged blackbird flies in us.
• 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…
• Before a secret is told, one can often feel the weight of it in the atmosphere.
• But still, the other voice, the intuitive, returns, like grass forcing its way through concrete.
• 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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