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Susan Griffin
American
Writer
About the author
What is buried in the past of one generation falls to the next to claim.
Susan Griffin,
American
Writer
#Past
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.
Susan Griffin,
American
Writer
#Life
#Nothing
#Death
#Society
#Nature
#Body
#Philosophy
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,
American
Writer
#Culture
#Women
#Force
In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism.
Susan Griffin,
American
Writer
#Sense
#Argument
#Determinism
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,
American
Writer
#Children
#Mind
#Body
#Intellect
#Emotion
I am not so different in my history of abandonment from anyone else after all. We have all been split away from the earth, each other, ourselves.
Susan Griffin,
American
Writer
#Earth
#History
A story is told as much by silence as by speech.
Susan Griffin,
American
Writer
#Speech
#Silence
Before a secret is told, one can often feel the weight of it in the atmosphere.
Susan Griffin,
American
Writer
#Weight