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 84
We discover one day , with our hands on the pot of boiling water , seeing it in our mind's eye wash endlessly out over the familiar face speaking to us , we are angry . The pot moves . The pot appears to move across space .
We discover one day , with our hands on the pot of boiling water , seeing it in our mind's eye wash endlessly out over the familiar face speaking to us , we are angry . The pot moves . The pot appears to move across space .
Page 86
Our hands reach to our faces . We lay the insides of our fingers on our cheeks . Our palms cradle our chins . Skin against skin . We feel the blood rush in our temples . We blink . Our eyelashes brush against the lines in our hands .
Our hands reach to our faces . We lay the insides of our fingers on our cheeks . Our palms cradle our chins . Skin against skin . We feel the blood rush in our temples . We blink . Our eyelashes brush against the lines in our hands .
Page 198
That our hands had knowledge of this act . That our hands would allow this birth to happen in its own time . We said when we asked the doctors to explain these births , they themselves knew very little . We said we had witnessed the ...
That our hands had knowledge of this act . That our hands would allow this birth to happen in its own time . We said when we asked the doctors to explain these births , they themselves knew very little . We said we had witnessed the ...
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User Review - bness2 - LibraryThingI realize this is considered a classic in feminist literature, but it is not anything like what I was expecting and I found Griffin's stream of consciousness style to be very distracting. This is not ... Read full review
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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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