Quotes by Susan Griffin

“My father learned his disinterest under the guise of masculinity. Boys dont cry. There are whole disciplines, institutions, rubrics in our culture which serve as categories of denial.Science is suc...”

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

“In the system of chivalry, men protect women against men. This is not unlike the protection relationship which [organized crime] established with small businesses in the early part of this century....”

“Lately I have come to believe that an as yet undiscovered human need and even a property of matter is the desire for revelation. The truth within us has a way of coming out despite all conscious ef...”

“It is a hot summer day in Tennessee in the midst of the sixth decade of this century. The girl has climbed the fence to get to the swimming hole she has visited so many summers of her life in the t...”

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

“One can find traces of every life in each life.”

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

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

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

“My father learned his disinterest under the guise of masculinity. Boys don’t cry. There are whole disciplines, institutions, rubrics in our culture which serve as categories of denial.Science is su...”

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

“When a theory is transformed into an ideology, it begins to destroy the self and self-knowledge. Originally born of feeling, it pretends to float above and around feeling. Above sensation. It organ...”

“From the body of the old woman, Susan Griffin wrote in a prose-poem called The Anatomy Lesson, We can tell you something of the life she lived.”

“In the women's consciousness-raising groups I belonged to in the early 1970s, we shared personal and very emotional stories of what it had really been like for us to live as women, examining our ex...”