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Susan Griffin quotes: And if the professional rapist is to be separated from the average dominant heterosexual (male), it may be mainly a quantitative difference.

And if the professional rapist is to be separated from the average dominant heterosexual (male), it may be mainly a quantitative difference.

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.

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: Poetry is a good medium for revolutionary hope.

Poetry is a good medium for revolutionary hope.

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.

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

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

Susan Griffin quotes: What always seems miraculous is when aesthetic necessities yield an insight which otherwise I would have missed.

What always seems miraculous is when aesthetic necessities yield an insight which otherwise I would have missed.

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.

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.

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: There is always a time to make right what is wrong.

There is always a time to make right what is wrong.

Susan Griffin quotes: There is always time to make right what is wrong.

There is always time to make right what is wrong.

Susan Griffin quotes: The ability for a woman to be free is connected with her ability to love another woman.

The ability for a woman to be free is connected with her ability to love another woman.

Susan Griffin quotes: 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.

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.

Susan Griffin quotes: In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism.

In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism.

Susan Griffin quotes: Society, like nature, is one body, really.

Society, like nature, is one body, really.

Susan Griffin quotes: Perhaps every moment of time lived in human consciousness remains in the air around us.

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

Susan Griffin quotes: Every time I deny myself I commit a kind of suicide.

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

Susan Griffin quotes: Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick.

Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick.

Susan Griffin quotes: One can find traces of every life in each life.

One can find traces of every life in each life.

Susan Griffin quotes: Masculinity is a terrible problem, as we construe it and shape it.

Masculinity is a terrible problem, as we construe it and shape it.

Susan Griffin quotes: Even in the grimmest of circumstances, a shift in perspective can create startling change.

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

Susan Griffin quotes: The body remembers who we are supposed to be. And in this there is grief.

The body remembers who we are supposed to be. And in this there is grief.

Susan Griffin quotes: But still, the other voice, the intuitive, returns, like grass forcing its way through concrete.

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

Susan Griffin quotes: Gender is a way to hide from the simple truth we all tell: 'Hey, I'm here, I have a body.'

Gender is a way to hide from the simple truth we all tell: 'Hey, I'm here, I have a body.'

Susan Griffin quotes: Before a secret is told, one can often feel the weight of it in the atmosphere.

Before a secret is told, one can often feel the weight of it in the atmosphere.

Susan Griffin quotes: There is a circle of humanity, he told me, and I can feel its warmth. But I am forever outside.

There is a circle of humanity, he told me, and I can feel its warmth. But I am forever outside.

Susan Griffin quotes: We keep secrets from ourselves that all along we know.

We keep secrets from ourselves that all along we know.

Susan Griffin quotes: I grew up right near Hollywood, and I wanted to be a filmmaker.

I grew up right near Hollywood, and I wanted to be a filmmaker.

Susan Griffin quotes: Waging war is not a primary physical need.

Waging war is not a primary physical need.

Susan Griffin quotes: 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.

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 quotes: What at one time one refuses to see never vanishes but returns, again and again, in many forms.

What at one time one refuses to see never vanishes but returns, again and again, in many forms.

Susan Griffin quotes: War starts in the mind, not in the body.

War starts in the mind, not in the body.

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.

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: It is a grief over the fate of the Earth that contains within it a joyful hope, that we might reclaim this Earth.

It is a grief over the fate of the Earth that contains within it a joyful hope, that we might reclaim this Earth.

Susan Griffin quotes: This is the paradox of vision: Sharp perception softens our existence in the world.

This is the paradox of vision: Sharp perception softens our existence in the world.

Susan Griffin quotes: A story is told as much by silence as by speech.

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

Susan Griffin quotes: What is buried in the past of one generation falls to the next to claim.

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