Susan Griffin
Susan Griffin
Susan Griffinis an eco-feminist author. She describes her work as "draw connections between the destruction of nature, the diminishment of women and racism, and trac the causes of war to denial in both private and public life." In addition to her many published writings, Griffin co-wrote and narrated the award-winning 1990 documentary, Berkeley in the Sixties. She received a MacArthur grant for Peace and International Cooperation, an NEA Fellowship, and an Emmy Award for the play Voices...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
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We known ourselves to be made from this earth.We know this earth is made from our bodies.For we see ourselves.And we are nature.We are nature seeing nature.We are nature with a concept of nature.Nature weeping.Nature speaking of nature to nature.
I am not so different in my history of abandonment from anyone else after all. We have all been split away from the earth, each other, ourselves.
As more companies offer their customers the option to pay bills with a credit or charge card, the number of consumers who do so has the potential to increase dramatically.
The men who still have the largest share of the power in society don't do any domestic work. The very people who are making our most important decisions should know how to cook, know how to grow a garden, diaper a baby, and raise young people. They should not only know these things but practice them.
One can find traces of every life in each life.
We are the bird's eggs. Bird's eggs, flowers, butterflies, rabbits, cows, sheep, we are caterpillars; we are leaves of ivy and springs of wildflower. We are women. We rise from the wave. We are gazelle and doe, elephant and whale, lilies and roses and peach, we are air, we are flame, we are oyster and pearl, we are girls. We are woman and nature. And he says he cannot hear us speak. But we hear.
We keep secrets from ourselves that all along we know.
Self-reflection is a desire felt by the body, as well as the soul. As dancers, healers, and saints all know, when you turn your attention toward even the simplest physical process - breath, the small movements of the eyes, the turning of a foot in midair - what might have seemed dull matter suddenly awakens.
At the museum a troubled woman destroys a sand painting meticulously created over days by Tibetan monks. The monks are not disturbed. The work is a meditation. They simply begin again.
Language is filled with words for deprivation images so familiar it is hard to crack language open into that other country the country of being.
It is a grief over the fate of the Earth that contains within it a joyful hope, that we might reclaim this Earth.
What is buried in the past of one generation falls to the next to claim.
We are nature. We are nature seeing nature. The red-winged blackbird flies in us.