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Susan Griffin Quotes

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 Picture Quote #1

We keep secrets from ourselves that all along we know Picture Quote #1

Every time I deny myself I commit a kind of suicide Picture Quote #1

Waging war is not a primary physical need Picture Quote #1

War starts in the mind, not in the body Picture Quote #1

I think we actually punish children out of their relationship with their bodies. We categorically separate mind and body and emotion and intellect Picture Quote #1

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In the system of chivalry, men protect women against men. This is not unlike the protection relationship which [organized crime] established with small businesses in the early part of this century. Indeed, chivalry is an age-old protection racket which depends for its existence on rape Picture Quote #1

We are nature. We are nature seeing nature. The red-winged blackbird flies in us Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Language is filled with words for deprivation images so familiar it is hard to crack language open into that other country the country of being Picture Quote #1

I think we actually punish children out of their relationship with their bodies... we categorically separate mind and body and emotion and intellect Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

... This is the paradox of vision: Sharp perception softens our existence in the world Picture Quote #1

There is always a time to make right what is wrong Picture Quote #1

One can find traces of every life in each life Picture Quote #1

Poetry is a good medium for revolutionary hope Picture Quote #1

What is buried in the past of one generation falls to the next to claim Picture Quote #1

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But still, the other voice, the intuitive, returns, like grass forcing its way through concrete Picture Quote #1

Perhaps every moment of time lived in human consciousness remains in the air around us Picture Quote #1

Even in the grimmest of circumstances, a shift in perspective can create startling change Picture Quote #1

A story is told as much by silence as by speech Picture Quote #1

Society, like nature, is one body, really Picture Quote #1

Ordinary women attempt to change our bodies to resemble a pornographic ideal. Ordinary women construct a false self and come to hate this self Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Telling a story of illness, one pulls a thread through a narrow opening flanked on one side by shame and the other by trivia Picture Quote #1

I love that moment in writing when language falls short. There is something more there. A larger body. Even by the failure of words I begin to detect its dimensions. As I work the prose, shift the verbs, look for new adjectives, a different rhythm, syntax, something new begins to come to the surface Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 (Susan Griffin Quotes) We keep secrets from ourselves that all along we know (Susan Griffin Quotes) Every time I deny myself I commit a kind of suicide (Susan Griffin Quotes) Waging war is not a primary physical need (Susan Griffin Quotes) War starts in the mind, not in the body (Susan Griffin Quotes) I think we actually punish children out of their relationship with their bodies. We categorically separate mind and body and emotion and intellect (Susan Griffin Quotes) In the system of chivalry, men protect women against men. This is not unlike the protection relationship which [organized crime] established with small businesses in the early part of this century. Indeed, chivalry is an age-old protection racket which depends for its existence on rape (Susan Griffin Quotes) We are nature. We are nature seeing nature. The red-winged blackbird flies in us (Susan Griffin Quotes) 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 (Susan Griffin Quotes) 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 (Susan Griffin Quotes) Language is filled with words for deprivation images so familiar it is hard to crack language open into that other country the country of being. (Susan Griffin Quotes) I think we actually punish children out of their relationship with their bodies... we categorically separate mind and body and emotion and intellect. (Susan Griffin Quotes) 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. (Susan Griffin Quotes) ... This is the paradox of vision: Sharp perception softens our existence in the world (Susan Griffin Quotes) There is always a time to make right what is wrong (Susan Griffin Quotes) One can find traces of every life in each life (Susan Griffin Quotes) Poetry is a good medium for revolutionary hope (Susan Griffin Quotes) What is buried in the past of one generation falls to the next to claim (Susan Griffin Quotes) But still, the other voice, the intuitive, returns, like grass forcing its way through concrete (Susan Griffin Quotes) Perhaps every moment of time lived in human consciousness remains in the air around us (Susan Griffin Quotes) Even in the grimmest of circumstances, a shift in perspective can create startling change (Susan Griffin Quotes) A story is told as much by silence as by speech (Susan Griffin Quotes) Society, like nature, is one body, really (Susan Griffin Quotes) Ordinary women attempt to change our bodies to resemble a pornographic ideal. Ordinary women construct a false self and come to hate this self (Susan Griffin Quotes) We are nature. We are nature seeing nature. We are nature with a concept of nature. Nature weeping. Nature speaking of nature to nature (Susan Griffin Quotes) 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 (Susan Griffin Quotes) 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 Quotes) I love that moment in writing when language falls short. There is something more there. A larger body. Even by the failure of words I begin to detect its dimensions. As I work the prose, shift the verbs, look for new adjectives, a different rhythm, syntax, something new begins to come to the surface (Susan Griffin Quotes) 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 (Susan Griffin Quotes) 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 (Susan Griffin Quotes)

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