Susan Griffin Quotes

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• A story is told as much by silence as by speech.

  Susan Griffin

  Inspirational, Writing, Silence

  Susan Griffin (2015). “A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War”, p.118, Open Road Media

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• This earth is my sister; I love her daily grace, her silent daring, and how loved I am. How we admire this strength in each other, all that we have lost, all that we have suffered, all that we know: We are stunned by this beauty, and I do not forget: what she is to me, what I am to her.

  Susan Griffin

  Grace, Earth, Forget

  Susan Griffin (2015). “Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her”, p.190, Open Road Media

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• we are nature. We are nature seeing nature. We are nature with a concept of nature. Nature weeping. Nature speaking of nature to nature.

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  Nature, Weeping, Seeing

  Susan Griffin (1983). “Made from this earth: an anthology of writings”, HarperCollins Publishers

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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 drawn over the old maps: it is from this new way of seeing the present that hope emerges for the future...Let us begin to imagine the worlds we would like to inhabit, the long lives we will share, and the many futures in our hands.

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  Memories, Lying, Hands

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• I know I am made from this earth, as my mother's hands were made from this earth, as her dreams came from this earth and all that I know, I know in this earth, the body of the bird, this pen, this paper, these hands, this tongue speaking, all that I know speaks to me through this earth.

  Susan Griffin

  Mother, Dream, Hands

  Susan Griffin (2016). “Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her”, p.164, Counterpoint

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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 our lives now.

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  Decision, Shapes, Habit

  Susan Griffin (2015). “A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War”, p.15, Open Road Media

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• But still, the other voice, the intuitive, returns, like grass forcing its way through concrete.

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  Voice, Intuition, Way

  Susan Griffin (1983). “Made from this earth: an anthology of writings”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• We keep secrets from ourselves that all along we know.

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  Secret, Knows

  Susan Griffin (2015). “A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War”, p.7, Open Road Media

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• Philosophy means nothing unless it is connected to birth, death, and the continuance of life. Anytime you are going to build a society that works, you have to begin from nature and the body.

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  Philosophy, Mean, Body

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• What is buried in the past of one generation falls to the next to claim.

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  Fall, Past, Generations

  Susan Griffin (2015). “A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War”, p.123, Open Road Media

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• Far more frightening than the thought of dying was the experience of erasure already occurring in my life. My fear of becoming someone who did not count.

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  Dying, Becoming, Becoming Someone

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• Every time I deny myself I commit a kind of suicide.

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  Suicide, Self, Kind

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

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  Heart, Mind, Doe

  Susan Griffin (2015). “A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War”, p.137, Open Road Media

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• Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female.

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  Female, Culture, Kind

  Susan Griffin (2015). “Pornography and Silence: Culture's Revenge Against Nature”, p.168, Open Road Media

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• Even in the grimmest of circumstances, a shift in perspective can create startling change.

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  Perspective, Serious, Circumstances

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• Each time I write, each time the authentic words break through, I am changed. The older order that I was collapses and dies. I lose control. I do not know exactly what words will appear on the page. I follow language. I follow the sound of the words, and I am surprised and transformed by what I record.

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  Writing, Break Through, Order

  Susan Griffin (1983). “Made from this earth: an anthology of writings”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• To make love is to become like this infant again. We grope with our mouths toward the body of another being, whom we trust, who takes us in her arms. We rock together with this loved one. We move beyond speech. Our bodies move past all the controls we have learned. We cry out in ecstasy, in feeling. We are back in a natural world before culture tried to erase our experience of nature. In this world, to touch another is to express love; there is no idea apart from feeling, and no feeling which does not ring through our bodies and our souls at once.

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  Sex, Moving, Past

  Susan Griffin (1981). “Pornography and Silence: Culture's Revolt Against Nature”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Self-reflection is a desire felt by the body, as well as the soul. As dancers, healers, and saints all know, when you turn your attention toward even the simplest physical process - breath, the small movements of the eyes, the turning of a foot in midair - what might have seemed dull matter suddenly awakens.

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  Eye, Reflection, Self

  Susan Griffin (2001). “The Book of the Courtesans: A Catalogue of Their Virtues”, Broadway

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• War starts in the mind, not in the body.

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  War, Mind, Body

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• I think artists can go to a level of vision that can often save us from a situation which seems to have no solution whatsoever.

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  Healing, Artist, Thinking

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• Yes we are devilish; that is true we cackle. Yes we are dark like the soil and wild like the animals. And we turn to each other and stare into this darkness. We find it beautiful. We find this darkness irresistible. We cease all hiding.

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  Beautiful, Dark, Animal

  Susan Griffin (2016). “Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her”, p.133, Counterpoint

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• Perhaps every moment of time lived in human consciousness remains in the air around us.

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  Air, Consciousness, Moments

  Susan Griffin (2015). “A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War”, p.71, Open Road Media

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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 desires, rich and poor, men and women alike.

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  Men, Desire, Together

  "A Writer's Debilitating Illness Becomes Her Lens on Society" by Judith Gingold, www.sfgate.com. August 8, 1999.

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• We are the bird's eggs. Bird's eggs, flowers, butterflies, rabbits, cows, sheep, we are caterpillars; we are leaves of ivy and springs of wildflower. We are women. We rise from the wave. We are gazelle and doe, elephant and whale, lilies and roses and peach, we are air, we are flame, we are oyster and pearl, we are girls. We are woman and nature. And he says he cannot hear us speak. But we hear.

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  Girl, Spring, Flower

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• We are nature. We are nature seeing nature. The red-winged blackbird flies in us.

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  Healing, Red, Blackbirds

  Susan Griffin (1983). “Made from this earth: an anthology of writings”, HarperCollins Publishers

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