Susan Griffin

“The pornographic mind is a mind that has been stripped of its capacity for empathy.”

“What is unspoken in a culture is very often what is most important to know.”

“The capacity to suffer is a specific human trait, and it is this capacity that is the source of all our art.”

“Denial can be a form of grace.”

“I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.”

“Ordinary women attempt to change our circumstance. Extraordinary women attempt to change our world.”

“We have been taught to suspect this love, to be ashamed of it, to be cynical about it, to doubt its power.”

“I know now that what is tragic about the German mind is that it is the German mind.”

“To be redeemed is to be perfectly known, and to be perfectly known is to be perfectly loved.”

“We are all born into a story, and our lives are the stories we tell.”

“Every war is a war against children.”

“This is the shadow land, the place of promises.”

“The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.”

“What we name, we have made.”

“To be a feminist is to be a part of a great historical movement that is changing the world.”