Judy Grahn Quotes

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From my mother, a rock,
I have learned that rocks give
most of all.

Judy Grahn
We cannot live in the past, nor can we re-create it. Yet as we unravel the past, the future also unfolds before us, as though they are mirrors without which neither can be seen or happen.

Judy Grahn
He called her: mother of pearl, barley woman, rice provider, millet basket, corn maid, flax princess, all-maker, weef She called him: fawn, roebuck, stag, courage, thunderman, all-in-green, mountain strider, keeper of forests, my-love-rides

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The shaman/priest/artist/teacher/leader does not operate for the sole benefit of herself and her kind but for the benefit of the people at large and of the universe and its patterns, as becomes what she perceives as fitting into place, into her sense of natural justice.

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Menstrual blood is the only source of blood that is not traumatically induced. Yet in modern society, this is the most hidden blood, the one so rarely spoken of and almost never seen, except privately by women...

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Those who believe they are ugly
objectify the rest of us.

Judy Grahn
Everyone wants Love to follow them
down their road;
where is it that Love wants to go?

Judy Grahn
Of Gertrude Stein:
She removed all the expectation: this is good, this is bad, this is indifferent. In her sentences each word is indifferent, is good and is bad. Each word is evil, is a landlord, a heroine, is saving.

Judy Grahn
The walls of the closet are guarded by the dogs of terror, and the inside of the closet is a house of mirrors.

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Gay culture is far from 'marginal,' being rather 'intersectional,' the conduits between unlike beings.

Judy Grahn
The tribal attitude said, and continues to say, that Gay people are especially empowered because we are able to identify with both sexes and can see into more than one world at once, having the capacity to see from more than one point of view at a time. And that is also an Indian way of seeing.

Judy Grahn