Quotes by Susan Griffin
Before a secret is told, one can often feel the weight of it in the atmosphere.
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.
What is buried in the past of one generation falls to the next to claim.
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.
Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick.
In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism.
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.
Society, like nature, is one body, really.
A story is told as much by silence as by speech.
I think we actually punish children out of their relationship with their bodies... we categorically separate mind and body and emotion and intellect.
