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Susan Griffin [1943-0] American

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Susan Griffin is an 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."

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Masculinity is a terrible problem, as we construe it and shape it.		101
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.	History	102
Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick.		103
A story is told as much by silence as by speech.		104
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.		105
What is buried in the past of one generation falls to the next to claim.		106
Each life reverberates in every other life. Whether or not we acknowledge it, we are connected, woven together in our needs and desires, rich and poor, men and women alike.		107
I think we actually punish children out of their relationship with their bodies... we categorically separate mind and body and emotion and intellect.		108
In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism.		109
Before a secret is told, one can often feel the weight of it in the atmosphere.		110
Society, like nature, is one body, really.		111
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.		112
I grew up right near Hollywood, and I wanted to be a filmmaker.		113
Gender is a way to hide from the simple truth we all tell: 'Hey, I'm here, I have a body.'		114

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