Susan Griffin Quotations

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.

One can find traces of every life in each life.

We are the bird's eggs. Bird's eggs, flowers, butterflies, rabbits, cows, sheep, we are caterpillars; we are leaves of ivy and springs of wildflower. We are women. We rise from the wave. We are gazelle and doe, elephant and whale, lilies and roses and peach, we are air, we are flame, we are oyster and pearl, we are girls. We are woman and nature. And he says he cannot hear us speak. But we hear.

We keep secrets from ourselves that all along we know.

Susan Bordo’s Unbearable Weight is a masterpiece of complex an nuanced thinking not only about a significant problem that faces women but about our culture. A very valuable book.

Self-reflection is a desire felt by the body, as well as the soul. As dancers, healers, and saints all know, when you turn your attention toward even the simplest physical process - breath, the small movements of the eyes, the turning of a foot in midair - what might have seemed dull matter suddenly awakens.

Waging war is not a primary physical need.

War starts in the mind, not in the body.

At the museum a troubled woman destroys a sand painting meticulously created over days by Tibetan monks. The monks are not disturbed. The work is a meditation. They simply begin again.

Language is filled with words for deprivation images so familiar it is hard to crack language open into that other country the country of being.