I am beginning to believe that we know everything, that all history, including the history of each family, is part of us, such that, when we hear any secret revealed, a secret about a grandfather, or an uncle, or a secret about the battle of Dresden in 1945, our lives are made suddenly clearer to us, as the unnatural heaviness of unspoken truth is dispersed. For perhaps we are like stones; our own history and the history of the world embedded in us, we hold a sorrow deep within and cannot weep until that history is sung.
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Susan Griffin was a 20th-century American writer. Susan Griffin was an American radical feminist philosopher, essayist and playwright, particularly known for her innovative, hybrid-form ecofeminist works. Read more on Wikipedia →

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