"The mind can forget what the body, defined……" — Susan Griffin

"The mind can forget what the body, defined by each breath, subject to the heart beating, does not."

— Susan Griffin

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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…

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More Beating Quotes

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I was ten when I got my first serious beating. It was rough. — David Bailey
I'm a complete hypochondriac. If my heart starts beating a little faster than normal, I think I'm having an attack. — Antonio Banderas
To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches. — Charles Baudelaire
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart. — Henry Ward Beecher
Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that… — Ambrose Bierce
Don't give up, be positive and if you know someone who knows someone at a record company don't stop beating… — Mary J. Blige
Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the… — Phillips Brooks
Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons. — Samuel Butler
If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize. — Muhammad Ali
Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. — Coco Chanel
I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse. — Woody Allen
I have found being a mother has made me emotionally raw in many situations. You heart is beating outside your… — Kate Beckinsale

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