[b]Susan Griffin
The mind can forget what the body, defined by each breath, subject to the heart beating, does not.[/b]
Trust me: not for long. Let alone forever.
In the system of chivalry, men protect women against men. This is not unlike the protection relationship which organized crime established with small businesses in the early part of this century. Indeed, chivalry is an age-old protection racket which depends for its existence on rape.
Doesn’t surprise you, does it?
There is a circle of humanity, he told me, and I can feel its warmth. But I am forever outside.
Way, way, way outside.
Every important social movement reconfigures the world in the imagination. What was obscure comes forward, lies are revealed, memory shaken, new delineations drawn over the old maps: it is from this new way of seeing the present that hope emerges for the future…Let us begin to imagine the worlds we would like to inhabit, the long lives we will share, and the many futures in our hands.
And, boy, do we need a new one now.
The world of fundamental religion does not recognize even the slightest variation in meaning should this meaning fall outside its own definition of truth.
Though why [in the name of God] should it?
How many small decisions accumulate to form a habit? What a multitude of decisions, made by others, in other times, must shape our lives now.
For some, going back to Adam and Eve.