"The telling and the hearing of a story is not a simple act. The one who tells must reach down into deeper layers of the self, reviving old feelings, reviewing the past. Whatever is retrieved is rework..."
- Susan Griffin
"The world of fundamental religion does not recognize even the slightest variation in meaning should this meaning fall outside its own definition of truth."
"My father learned his disinterest under the guise of masculinity. Boys don’t cry. There are whole disciplines, institutions, rubrics in our culture which serve as categories of denial.Science is such ..."
"The mind can forget what the body, defined by each breath, subject to the heart beating, does not."
"The authorities did not wish to confront those citizens with the sight of the dead. Finally bodies were dumped unidentified into mass graves. Like plutonium waste which we would like to forget, these ..."
"The ability for a woman to be free is connected with her ability to love another woman."
"Although the many virtues that courtesans possessed were employed to defy circumstances, the role they played depended on the same circumstances over which they triumphed- conditions which to, fortuna..."
"What was it like then to witness the transformation wrought by this construction? A geometric idea of precision suddenly imposed on a landscape, lived on and in for centuries. The land itself like a b..."
"I am beginning to believe that we know everything, that all history, including the history of each family, is part of us, such that, when we hear any secret revealed, a secret about a grandfather, or ..."
"I am not so different in my history of abandonment from anyone else after all. We have all been split away from each other, the earth, ourselves."