Susan Griffin Quotes & Sayings

“Masculinity is a terrible problem, as we construe it and shape it.”

“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.”

“Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism.”

“Society, like nature, is one body, really.”

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