Quotes by Susan Griffin

Susan Griffin

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

Perception

Vision

World

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

Inspirational

Silence

Writing

Although the many virtues that courtesans possessed were employed to defy circumstances, the role they played depended on the same circumstances over which they triumphed- conditions which to, fortunately for modern women, no longer exist.

Modern Woman

Roles

Virtue

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

Average

Differences

Radical Feminism

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.

Meditation

Museums

Painting

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

Atmosphere

Secret

Weight

Borrow a child and get on welfare. Borrow a child and stay in the house all day with the child, or go to the public park with the child, and take the child to the welfare office and cry and say your man left you and be humble and wear your dress and your smile, and don’t talk back.

Children

Humble

Motherhood

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

Intuition

Voice

Way

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.

Desire

Men

Together

Each time I write, each time the authentic words break through, I am changed. The older order that I was collapses and dies. I lose control. I do not know exactly what words will appear on the page. I follow language. I follow the sound of the words, and I am surprised and transformed by what I record.

Break Through

Order

Writing

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Aesthetic

Age

Air

Animal

Argument

Artist

Atmosphere

Average

Beautiful

Becoming

Becoming Someone

Blackbirds

Body

Book

Break Through

Change

Children

Chivalry

Circumstances

Consciousness

Country

Cracks

Culture

Dark

Decision

Desire

Determinism

Differences

Different

Doe

Dream

Dying

Earth

Eye

Fall

Fate

Female

Flower

Forget

Friendship

Generations

Girl

Grace

Grief

Habit

Hands

Hate

Healing

Heart

Hope

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Quotes by Susan Griffin

Susan Griffin

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

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

Although the many virtues that courtesans possessed were employed to defy circumstances, the role they played depended on the same circumstances over which they triumphed- conditions which to, fortunately for modern women, no longer exist.

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

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.

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

Borrow a child and get on welfare. Borrow a child and stay in the house all day with the child, or go to the public park with the child, and take the child to the welfare office and cry and say your man left you and be humble and wear your dress and your smile, and don’t talk back.

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

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.

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