Susan Griffin Quotes (14 Quotes)

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

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.

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.

As more companies offer their customers the option to pay bills with a credit or charge card, the number of consumers who do so has the potential to increase dramatically.

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

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

The men who still have the largest share of the power in society don't do any domestic work. The very people who are making our most important decisions should know how to cook, know how to grow a garden, diaper a baby, and raise young people. They should not only know these things but practice them.

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

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

One can find traces of every life in each life.

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.

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

We known ourselves to be made from this earth.We know this earth is made from our bodies.For we see ourselves.And we are nature.We are nature seeing nature.We are nature with a concept of nature.Nature weeping.Nature speaking of nature to nature.

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