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Susan Griffin has 35 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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A story is told as much by silence as by speech.
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There is always a time to make right what is wrong.
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And if the professional rapist is to be separated from the average dominant heterosexual (male), it may be mainly a quantitative difference.
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Although the many virtues that courtesans possessed were employed to defy circumstances, the role they played depended on the same circumstances over…
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The hope you feel when you are in love is not necessarily for anything in particular. Love brings something inside you to…
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Every important social movement reconfigures the world in the imagination. What was obscure comes forward, lies are revealed, memory shaken, new delineations…
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Poetry is a good medium for revolutionary hope.
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Is it a coincidence that stories from the private life became more popular just as the grand hope for public redemption through…
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How many small decisions accumulate to form a habit? What a multitude of decisions, made by others, in other times, must shape…
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The hard surface of the stone is impervious to nothing in the end. The heat of the sun leaves evidence of daylight.…
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In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism.
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Each life reverberates in every other life. Whether or not we acknowledge it, we are connected, woven together in our needs and…
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The devil's script sells you the heart of a blackbird.
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We are nature. We are nature seeing nature. The red-winged blackbird flies in us.
— Susan Griffin
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The nightingale has a lyre of gold, The lark's is a clarion call, And the blackbird plays but a boxwood flute, But…
— William Ernest Henley
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O Blackbird! sing me something well: While all the neighbors shoot thee round, I keep smooth plats of fruitful ground, Where thou…
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I am a closet birdwatcher. I can identify Southern African species, but it irks me I can barely tell a jay from…
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The river is moving. The blackbird must be flying.
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The bowed head, the buried face. She is silent, she will never speak, never forgive, never reach a hand, never leave this…
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maybe we try too hard to be remembered, waking to the glowing yellow disc in ignorance, swearing that today will be the…
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I can walk into someone's house, kiss their wife, sit down at their table, and eat their dinner. I can lift a…
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