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List of Susan Griffin Quotes

Explore our hand-picked selection of 50 inspiring quotes by Susan Griffin.

About Susan Griffin

  • Born: January 26, 1943
  • Occupation: Author
    • Telling a story of illness, one pulls a thread through a narrow opening flanked on one side by shame and the other by trivia.
    Stories Trivia Sides
    In one sense i feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism.
    Book Argument Determinism
    Language is filled with words for deprivation images so familiar it is hard to crack language open into that other country the country of being.
    Country Cracks Language
    Susan bordo’s unbearable weight is a masterpiece of complex an nuanced thinking not only about a significant problem that faces women but about our culture. a very valuable book.
    Book Thinking Unbearable
    Waging war is not a primary physical need.
    War Needs Waging War
    Ordinary women attempt to change our bodies to resemble a pornographic ideal. ordinary women construct a false self and come to hate this self.
    Change Hate Self
    Is it a coincidence that stories from the private life became more popular just as the grand hope for public redemption through revolution was beginning to sour? i witnessed a similar shift in taste in my own time. in the 1960s, while a hopeful vision of a just society arose again, countless poems and plays concerning politics and public life were written, read, and performed. but after the hope diminished and public life seemed less and less trustworthy, this subject was less in style.
    Play Hopeful Vision
    In my lifetime i have seen democracy begin to expand, not only to include those who have been excluded, but to provide a listening arena, a vocabulary, an intelligent reception for stories that have been buried. not just stories of the disenfranchised and the marginalized, but marginalized and disenfranchised histories even in the lives of the accepted and the privileged.
    Intelligent Vocabulary Listening
    One can find traces of every life in each life.
    Friendship
    At the museum a troubled woman destroys a sand painting meticulously created over days by tibetan monks. the monks are not disturbed. the work is a meditation. they simply begin again.
    Museums Meditation Painting
    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.
    Decision Shapes Habit
    Before a secret is told, one can often feel the weight of it in the atmosphere.
    Atmosphere Secret Weight
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