Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her"A West Coast feminist and poet draws from myth, legend, history, religion, sociology, science, and other sources to trace the evolution of attitudes toward and perceptions of women and nature."--Goodreads website. |
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Page 122
He speeds past death . In his speed is endless virility . As a lover he amazes flesh . Women fall . He is like lightning in his gestures . His will pervades all matter . He sees no boundaries . He tolerates no entanglements .
He speeds past death . In his speed is endless virility . As a lover he amazes flesh . Women fall . He is like lightning in his gestures . His will pervades all matter . He sees no boundaries . He tolerates no entanglements .
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a in fear of death or castration from their father . That the brothers thus driven out of the family banded together and murdered the father , making a feast of his body ) part of an Egyptian mummy cover . ( And that in the childhood of ...
a in fear of death or castration from their father . That the brothers thus driven out of the family banded together and murdered the father , making a feast of his body ) part of an Egyptian mummy cover . ( And that in the childhood of ...
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He says therefore that what we know as birth and death is a delusion . That we think of birth as a coming into being and death as annihilation , but that nothing can be created out of nothing , and that which is cannot perish utterly .
He says therefore that what we know as birth and death is a delusion . That we think of birth as a coming into being and death as annihilation , but that nothing can be created out of nothing , and that which is cannot perish utterly .
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Contents
MATTER | 5 |
LAND Her Changing Face | 47 |
TIMBER What Was There for Them | 56 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her |
| Author | Susan Griffin |
| Publisher | Harper & Row, 1978 |
| ISBN | 0060115114, 9780060115111 |
| Length | 263 pages |
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