Gender is a way to hide from the simple truth we all tell: ‘Hey, I’m here, I have a body.’ Susan Griffin Read Quote
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. Susan Griffin Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism. Susan Griffin Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Before a secret is told, one can often feel the weight of it in the atmosphere. Susan Griffin Read Quote
