Susan Griffin Quotes

"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
(Related: Nature, Society, Death, Life, Body, Nothing, Philosophy)

"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
(Related: Women, Culture, Force)

"In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism."
- Susan Griffin
(Related: Argument, Determinism, Sense)

"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
(Related: Body, Children, Emotion, Intellect, Mind)

"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
(Related: History, Earth)

"A story is told as much by silence as by speech."
- Susan Griffin
(Related: Silence, Speech)

"Before a secret is told, one can often feel the weight of it in the atmosphere."
- Susan Griffin
(Related: Weight)