Susan Griffin (born January 26, 1943) 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." She received a MacArthur grant for Peace and International Cooperation, an NEA Fellowship, and an Emmy Award for the play Voices.
Susan Griffin was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1943 and has resided in California since then.
Read more about Susan Griffin: Writings of Susan Griffin (1967 To Present)
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“We enunciate a grand principle, then we are timid and begin restricting its application. We are a nation of infidels to principle.”
—Mary F. Eastman, U.S. suffragist. As quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 4, ch. 7, by Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper (1902)
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—Susan Griffin (b. 1943)