Susan Griffin Quotes

Susan Griffin — American Writer

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." 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... (wikipedia)

Masculinity is a terrible problem, as we construe it and shape it.

Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick.

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

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.

Before a secret is told, one can often feel the weight of it in the atmosphere.

Susan Griffin Quotes

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