Susan Griffin
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"Susan Griffin" is an Ecofeminism/eco-feminist author. She describes her work as "draw[ing] connections between the destruction of nature, the diminishment of women and racism, and trac[ing] 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 Foundation/MacArthur grant for Peace and International Cooperation, an National Endowment for the Arts/NEA Fellowship, and an Emmy Award for the play Voices.

Susan Griffin was born in Los Angeles, California, USA in 1943 and has resided in California since then. She currently lives in Berkeley, California.

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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.

What is buried in the past of one generation falls to the next to 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.

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.

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.

I think we actually punish children out of their relationship with their bodies... we categorically separate mind and body and emotion and intellect.

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.

A story is told as much by silence as by speech.

Ordinary women attempt to change our bodies to resemble a pornographic ideal. Ordinary women construct a false self and come to hate this self.