"At the museum a troubled woman destroys a……" — Susan Griffin
"At the museum a troubled woman destroys a sand painting meticulously created over days by Tibetan monks. The monks are not disturbed. The work is a meditation. They simply begin again."
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35 Quotes by Susan Griffin
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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…
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Although the many virtues that courtesans possessed were employed to defy circumstances, the role they played depended on the same…
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The hope you feel when you are in love is not necessarily for anything in particular. Love brings something inside…
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Every important social movement reconfigures the world in the imagination. What was obscure comes forward, lies are revealed, memory shaken,…
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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…
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How many small decisions accumulate to form a habit? What a multitude of decisions, made by others, in other times,…
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The hard surface of the stone is impervious to nothing in the end. The heat of the sun leaves evidence…
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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…
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