Argument Quote by Susan Griffin Download Open image “In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism.” — Susan Griffin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Argument Book Books Determinism
Many of my books are written from a female perspective. I rather enjoy the take that women have on the world, and certainly I… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. — James McCosh Copy Share Image
“But it's one thing to feel that a book can speak beyond its particular time and place to something universal, and another to ignore… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“Women must find their own answer. That’s the important thing. I’m no longer interested in books about women written by men. Even if I… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
I am one of those authors who believes (perhaps foolishly) that she is in complete control of the story. — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
I think that you don't really want to write a book that doesn't really move people and doesn't get them to think. — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
I didn't even know I was a feminist until I read it on the back of one of my own books. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
To you I am neither man nor woman. I come before you as an author only. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Whenever one writes a book one should have a notional reader in mind. — Sadakat Kadri Copy Share Image
Telling a story of illness, one pulls a thread through a narrow opening flanked on one side by shame and the other by trivia. — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
Is it a coincidence that stories from the private life became more popular just as the grand hope for public redemption through revolution was… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
How many small decisions accumulate to form a habit? What a multitude of decisions, made by others, in other times, must shape our lives… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
Gender is a way to hide from the simple truth we all tell: 'Hey, I'm here, I have a body.' — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
“I am not so different in my history of abandonment from anyone else after all. We have all been split away from each other,… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
“[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… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
“The world of fundamental religion does not recognize even the slightest variation in meaning should this meaning fall outside its own definition of truth.” — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
We are nature. We are nature seeing nature. The red-winged blackbird flies in us. — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
Before a secret is told, one can often feel the weight of it in the atmosphere. — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
What always seems miraculous is when aesthetic necessities yield an insight which otherwise I would have missed. — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good. — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they… — Michael Servetus Copy Share Image
Any comprehensive doctrine, religious or secular, can be introduced into any political argument at any time, but I argue that people who do this… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
As opposed to getting into arguments about, well, these folks have been treated fairly so now we're going to be doing things that, very… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing racial segregation… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
On the stage, the characters express themselves more through words than images. So the arguments of the characters and the tension between characters -… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
One argument goes that recessions are good for female artists because when money flies out the window, women are allowed in the house. The… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
All of the barriers to innovation in the energy sector are arguments for a big commitment to public investment. Only the public sector can… — Ted Nordhaus Copy Share Image
“Arguments led by subjectivity are a waste of time. And, if they take place online, add to that, a waste of one’s keyboard.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
If in the middle of an argument I suddenly fall silent it does not mean you have won... No it means you should probably… — Hussein Nishah Copy Share Image