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Ordinary women attempt to change our bodies to resemble a pornographic ideal. Ordinary women construct a false self and come to hate this self.

Susan Griffin

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Susan Griffin
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: January 26
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Environmentalist
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LA
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Susan Griffin
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