Susan Griffin Quotes

What is buried in the past of one generation falls to the next to claim. - Susan Griffin

We known ourselves to be made from this earth.
We know this earth is made from our bodies.
For we see ourselves.
And we are nature.
We are nature seeing nature.
We are nature with a concept of nature.
Nature weeping.
Nature speaking of nature to nature. - Susan Griffin

The men who still have the largest share of the power in society don't do any domestic work. The very people who are making our most important decisions should know how to cook, know how to grow a garden, diaper a baby, and raise young people. They should not only know these things but practice them. - Susan Griffin

Philosophy means nothing unless it is connected to birth, death, and the continuance of life. Anytime you are going to build a society that works, you have to begin from nature and the body. - Susan Griffin

Our survey shows that while consumers are projecting a significant increase in household expenses, they are planning to spend conservatively on discretionary items this year. It appears that several factors are driving this cautionary approach, including a desire to save or invest more money and changes in salary, job status or job security. - Susan Griffin

Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female. - Susan Griffin

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

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

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. - Susan Griffin

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

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