Zitat des Tages von Susan Griffin:
What is buried in the past of one generation falls to the next to claim.
I think we actually punish children out of their relationship with their bodies... we categorically separate mind and body and emotion and intellect.
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.
Before a secret is told, one can often feel the weight of it in the atmosphere.
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.
A story is told as much by silence as by speech.
In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism.
I grew up right near Hollywood, and I wanted to be a filmmaker.
Gender is a way to hide from the simple truth we all tell: 'Hey, I'm here, I have a body.'
