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Yes we are devilish; that is true we cackle. Yes we are dark like the soil and wild like the animals. And we turn to each other and stare into this darkness. We find it beautiful. We find this darkness irresistible. We cease all hiding.

Susan Griffin

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.

Susan Griffin

Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female.

Susan Griffin

Susan Griffin

Susan Griffin

Born: January 26, 1943 (age 78)

Bio: Susan Griffin is 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.

Known for:

Woman and Nature (1978)
A chorus of stones (1992)
Book of the Courtesans (2001)
What Her Body Thought (1998)
Pornography and silence (1981)

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