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
One can find traces of every life in each life.
Telling a story of illness, one pulls a thread through a narrow opening flanked on one side by shame and the other by trivia.
Far more frightening than the thought of dying was the experience of erasure already occurring in my life. My fear of becoming someone who did not count.
We are nature. We are nature seeing nature. The red-winged blackbird flies in us.
Masculinity is a terrible problem, as we construe it and shape it.
Gender is a way to hide from the simple truth we all tell: 'Hey, I'm here, I have a body.'
I grew up right near Hollywood, and I wanted to be a filmmaker.