In this dialogue, Susan Griffin explores the relationship between what happens in our intimate lives and the violence we express individually and as a nation. She explains, 'The idea that we have to get somebody with a lot of muscles to take care of us happens when our core relationship to our own feelings has been erased.'
Author, poet and social activist Susan Griffin sees that we are in somewhat of a box, and that we need the visionary power of art to help us find our way out. 'I think artists can go to a level of vision that can often save us from a situation which seems to have no solution whatsoever.'
Here we acknowledge the 'sheroic' work of 5 women who represent the millions who, in their work for the Earth, embody the 'fierce feminine,' feminine qualities they say that are in all of us no matter our gender. They are the qualities most called for in these pivotal times.
