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He says that woman speaks with nature. That she hears voices from under the earth. That wind blows in her ears and trees whisper to her. That the dead sing through her mouth and the cries of infants are clear to her. But for him this dialogue is over. He says he is not part of this world, that he was set on this world as a stranger. He sets himself apart from woman and nature. And so it is Goldilocks who goes to the home of the three bears, Little Red Riding Hood who converses with the wolf, Dorothy who befriends a lion, Snow White who talks to the birds, Cinderella with mice as her allies, the Mermaid who is half fish, Thumbelina courted by a mole. (And when we hear in the Navaho chant of the mountain that a grown man sits and smokes with bears and follows directions given to him by squirrels, we are surprised. We had thought only little girls spoke with animals.) We are the bird's eggs. Bird's eggs, flowers, butterflies, rabbits, cows, sheep; we are caterpillars; we are leaves of ivy and sprigs of wallflower. We are women. We rise from the wave. We are gazelle and doe, elephant and whale, lilies and roses and peach, we are air, we are flame, we are oyster and pearl, we are girls. We are woman and nature. And he says he cannot hear us speak. But we hear.


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Robin Ruth Morgan (East Palo Alto Calif. She describes her work as "draw[ing] connections between the destruction of nature the diminishment of women and racism and trac[ing] 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.

She describes her work as "draw[ing] connections between the destruction of nature the diminishment of women and racism and trac[ing] the causes of war to denial in both private and public life. Susan Griffin was born in Los Angeles California in 1943 and has resided in California since then.

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