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Susan Griffin

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Susan Griffin is an award winning poet, writer, essayist and playwright who has written nineteen books, including A Chorus of Stones, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Named by Utne reader as one of the top hundred visionaries of the new millenium, she is the recipient of an Emmy for her play Voices, an NEA grant and a MacArthur Grant for Peace and International Cooperation. Her latest work, Wrestling with the Angel of Democracy, on being an American Citizen has been called "fresh, probing" and "incisive" by Booklist.

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Average rating: 3.97 · 641 ratings · 95 reviews · 23 distinct works

	A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War 4.29 avg rating — 164 ratings — published 1992 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Book of the Courtesans: A Catalogue of Their Virtues 3.59 avg rating — 191 ratings — published 2001 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her 4.23 avg rating — 133 ratings — published 1978 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Eros of Everyday Life, The: Essays on Ecology, Gender and Society 4.13 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Pornography and Silence 3.76 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 1981 — 3 editions	My rating:
	What Her Body Thought: A Journey Into the Shadows 3.81 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1999 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Wrestling with the Angel of Democracy: On Being an American Citizen 3.45 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions	My rating:
	All A Novelist Needs: Colm Tóibín On Henry James by Susan Griffin, Susan M. Griffin (Editor) 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Made from this earth: An anthology of writings 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1983 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Like The Iris Of An Eye 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings	My rating:

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“The mind can forget what the body, defined by each breath, subject to the heart beating, does not.”
― Susan Griffin, A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War

tags: denial , war

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“Although the many virtues that courtesans possessed were employed to defy circumstances, the role they played depended on the same circumstances over which they triumphed- conditions which to, fortunately for modern women, no longer exist.”
― Susan Griffin

tags: courtesans , virtue , women

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“ There is a circle of humanity, he told me, and I can feel its warmth. But I am forever outside. ”
― Susan Griffin, A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War

tags: exclusion , humanity , war