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 83
... never satisfied . To yield to her one demand is to yield to endless demanding . In her is a depth so profound , she darkens all light . The voyager never finds his way out . She is an infinite ocean . Inside her body is hell . Burning ...
... never satisfied . To yield to her one demand is to yield to endless demanding . In her is a depth so profound , she darkens all light . The voyager never finds his way out . She is an infinite ocean . Inside her body is hell . Burning ...
Page 105
... never in her life stretched those legs . Never darted farther than twenty yards at a time . Only once did she use her claws . Only once did she feel them sink into flesh . And it was her keeper's flesh . Her keeper whom she loves , who ...
... never in her life stretched those legs . Never darted farther than twenty yards at a time . Only once did she use her claws . Only once did she feel them sink into flesh . And it was her keeper's flesh . Her keeper whom she loves , who ...
Page 121
... never live in this house . He could not even cross the street . Without Them he would never learn the names for things . ( They gave him his own name . ) They explain the mysterious to him . Their knowledge is endless , and Their voices ...
... never live in this house . He could not even cross the street . Without Them he would never learn the names for things . ( They gave him his own name . ) They explain the mysterious to him . Their knowledge is endless , and Their voices ...
Contents
MATTER | 5 |
LAND Her Changing Face | 47 |
TIMBER What Was There for Them | 56 |
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Adrienne Rich ALOIS PODHAJSKY animals asked atom beauty become bird blood body breast breath called Charles Darwin child cited in DC cited in MFM cited in PSV cited in TH clitoris count darkness Darwin daughter death discovered dream earth energy existence eyes fear feel female flesh forest Freud Garden girls hair hands head hear Hexenhaus horse ibid inside Johannes Kepler John James Audubon Kepler knew labor learned light lives Loren Eiseley Marie Curie matter milk mind mother motion mouth move movement Newton ourselves ovum pain particles plankton Press René Descartes rider Science sexual shape Sigmund Freud skin soil soul space speak species speed story Susan Griffin tambourine tell things thought told trees universe uterus violin voice vulva wave wind witches Woman and Nature WOMAN WOMAN WOMAN womb women words York
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| Title | Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her Harper colophon books |
| Author | Susan Griffin |
| Publisher | Harper & Row, 1978 |
| ISBN | 0060115114, 9780060115111 |
| Length | 263 pages |
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