Quotes by Susan Griffin

• What is buried in the past of one generation falls to the next to claim.
• 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.
• 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.
• In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism.
• I think we actually punish children out of their relationship with their bodies... we categorically separate mind and body and emotion and intellect.
• 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.
• 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.