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How come we have money to kill but no money to feed or heal? How come we have money to destroy but no money for art and schools? The
— Eve Ensler
I think all my work's been about how do women get back into our bodies; how do men get back. We're all disassociated.
— Eve Ensler
I think the human species is very suicidal.
— Eve Ensler
Decide whether you want to be liked or admired.
— Eve Ensler
If overthrowing some five thousand years of patriarchy seems like a big order, just focus on celebrating each self-respect step along the way
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Wanting to fall in love and being totally unable to trust, hungering for connection and always finding it claustrophobic.
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Security is elusive. It's impossible. We all die. We all get old. We all get sick. People leave us. People change us. Nothing is secure.
— Eve Ensler
You have to give to the world the thing that you want the most, in order to fix the broken parts inside you.
— Eve Ensler
I want to touch you in real time not find you on YouTube, I want to walk next to you in the mountains not friend you on Facebook.
— Eve Ensler
I think about Marvin Gaye and 'Sexual Healing.' What a radical idea that sex was healing. I learned my politics through that music.
— Eve Ensler
What I'm really interested in is freedom.
— Eve Ensler
Stop fixing your bodies and start fixing the world!
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The older you get, the more you are aware that everybody has a certain way of seeing things, which they have to honour.
— Eve Ensler
In the United States, the last recorded clitoridectomy for curing masturbation was performed in 1948
on a five year old girl. — Eve Ensler
on a five year old girl. — Eve Ensler
I'm feeling a kind of liberty to write about what's interesting to me without worrying about what I should be writing about. And that feels good.
— Eve Ensler
When you rape, beat, maim, mutilate, burn, bury, and terrorize women, you destroy the essential life energy on the planet.
— Eve Ensler
Eve Ensler is a hero of mine. She's been working for the rights of women for a long time.
— Marcia Wallace
We must stop being polite and behaved, and find new inventive tactics to shift the paradigm. We are the majority.
— Eve Ensler
Why are women immobile? Because so many feel like they're waiting for someone to say, 'You're good, you're pretty, I give you permission.'
— Eve Ensler
It became a kind of passion. Discovering the key, unlocking the vagina's mouth, unlocking this voice, this wild song.
— Eve Ensler
Women secretly love to talk about their vaginas. They get very excited, mainly because no one has ever asked them before.
— Eve Ensler
Why don't we bring everyone up to be caring and compassionate, to believe that we are connected with everyone and everything around us?
— Eve Ensler
We have not yet made violence against women abnormal, extraordinary, unacceptable. We have not yet come to see it as a pathological issue.
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There is just so much excess in terms of the market for self-remodeling. I think most women are perfectly gorgeous and beautiful the way they are,
— Eve Ensler
I'd stop calling it "chemotherapy." I'd call it "transformational juice." Infusion suites would become "transformational suites" or "journey rooms."
— Eve Ensler
Slavery is back
but never went away — Eve Ensler
but never went away — Eve Ensler
I had always thought of my vagina as an anatomical vacuum randomly sucking up particles and objects from the surrounding environment.
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It is almost a guarantee that in the pursuit of security you will become more insecure. Inherent in the quest for security is its undoing.
— Eve Ensler
I think the thing that has always made me happy is being in the struggle, in a community of struggle with other people.
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I was born in Manhattan and grew up in Scarsdale. Scarsdale didn't work for me as a place at all.
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I believe in irony. And if V-Day has taught me anything, it's that if you go out with artistic, outrageous irony and humor, people are drawn to it.
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The minute someone tells you you have cancer, it's kind of like you die. You really do die. It's like you get that you're mortal.
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I think violence against women in America has become ordinary - it's been made absolutely acceptable.
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Money doesn't make you special, it makes you lucky. Be generous, be crazy, be outrageous.
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Dance has a transformative effect on bodily trauma.
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The cancer in me became an awareness of the cancer that is everywhere. The cancer of cruelty, the cancer of carelessness, the cancer of greed.
— Eve Ensler
I think one of the problems with the capitalist mainstream is this: no matter what you create to respond or resist it they will buy it.
— Eve Ensler
Since cancer, I feel like I have dreams rather than ambitions, visions rather than plans.
— Eve Ensler
When we give in the world what we want the most, we heal the broken part inside each of us.
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I'm a nomad. I have a place in New York in the Flatiron District, and I have a place in Paris in Ile Saint-Louis, and I spend a lot of time in Congo.
— Eve Ensler
What I have found is that even when you try to transform existing structures they are so powerful they often overwhelm, seduce, and control you.
— Eve Ensler
I would rate the fact that I get to be alive a big beautiful 10. Satisfaction with myself - work in progress.
— Eve Ensler
Once you are diagnosed with cancer, time changes. It both speeds up insanely and stops altogether.
— Eve Ensler
Danger lurks when people are dissociated and detached from their own story or feelings.
— Eve Ensler
For the most part, political correctness doesn't exist here.
- Toby, Marymount Manhattan College — Eve Ensler
- Toby, Marymount Manhattan College — Eve Ensler
I'm in good shape. My cancer means I have lost a lot of organs and I'm a lot lighter. I have devoted myself to yoga and I'm doing handstands.
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Dance is holy, sexual, and it's a way of being very powerful and a little dangerous without being violent.
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The clitoris is pure in purpose. It is the only organ in the body designed purely for pleasure.
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I think that anytime you get clear about what your mission is or what your focus wants to be, things start to come together in your life.
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I honestly never understood how violence against women became a women's issue. 95 percent of the violence men are doing to women.
— Eve Ensler
Geography does not define you - love does.
— Eve Ensler
I really want to help stop violence toward women.
— Eve Ensler
For many years now, I feel like my own body struggle has been linked and connected with women I meet in the world. I think we're in this together.
— Eve Ensler
The only point of having power it seems to me is to empower others. The only point of leadership is to inspire.
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I think the world is always improving and always not improving. I think that both are simultaneously happening all the time.
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When you listen to other women's stories you begin to understand your own better and you begin to find ways back through and with each other.
— Eve Ensler
The mechanism of violence is what destroys women, controls women, diminishes women and keeps women in their so-called place.
— Eve Ensler
I did not want to see how careless this whole system is for so many, how easy it is to fall through the cracks.
— Eve Ensler
That we find freedom, aliveness and power not from what contains, locates, or protects us but from what dissolves, reveals and expands us.
— Eve Ensler
I have been a depressed person most of m life. I was always in the throes of self-hatred.
— Eve Ensler
Theater has an incredible capacity to move people to social change, to address issues, to inspire social revolution.
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To have insurance and have a diagnosis and to have doctors, I just felt it would be immoral on some level to complain.
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The love is all around us. I made a life of love.
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Whatever culture, whatever country, girls are taught to please others as opposed to pleasing themselves.
— Eve Ensler
Stop trying to fix your body. It was never broken.
— Eve Ensler