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
I think we actually punish children out of their relationship with their bodies... we categorically separate mind and body and emotion and intellect.
War starts in the mind, not in the body.
Society, like nature, is one body, really.
The mind can forget what the body, defined by each breath, subject to the heart beating, does not.
Philosophy means nothing unless it is connected to birth, death, and the continuance of life. Anytime you are going to build a society that works, you have to begin from nature and the body.
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 grew up right near Hollywood, and I wanted to be a filmmaker.
Gender is a way to hide from the simple truth we all tell: 'Hey, I'm here, I have a body.'
Masculinity is a terrible problem, as we construe it and shape it.
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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.
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.
Although almost a month has passed since the nine lotto players presented the winning ticket, the four potential claimants have not even articulated a claim by filing a writ or statement of claim,
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.