"I think we actually punish children out of……" — Susan Griffin
"I think we actually punish children out of their relationship with their bodies... we categorically separate mind and body and emotion and intellect."
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35 Quotes by Susan Griffin
Susan Griffin has 35 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- 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…
- Although the many virtues that courtesans possessed were employed to defy circumstances, the role they played depended on the same…
- The hope you feel when you are in love is not necessarily for anything in particular. Love brings something inside…
- Every important social movement reconfigures the world in the imagination. What was obscure comes forward, lies are revealed, memory shaken,…
- 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…
- How many small decisions accumulate to form a habit? What a multitude of decisions, made by others, in other times,…
- The hard surface of the stone is impervious to nothing in the end. The heat of the sun leaves evidence…
- 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…