Eve Ensler Quotes

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• Women are the primary resource of the planet. They give birth, we come from them. They are mothers, they are visionaries, they are the future. If we can figure out how to make women feel safe and honor women, it would be parallel or equal to honoring life itself.

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  Mother, Giving, Honor

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• I think the greatest illusion we have is that denial protects us. It's actually the biggest distortion and lie. In fact, staying asleep is what's killing us.

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  Lying, Thinking, Denial

  "Interview with Eve Ensler: In The Body of the World". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 29, 2013.

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• In America, we have a government that is now run by white nationalists, by billionaires, by incredible misogynists.

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  Running, Government, White

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• To love women, to love our vaginas, to know them and touch them and be familiar with who we are and what we need. To satisfy ourselves, to teach our lovers to satisfy us, to be present in our vaginas, to speak of them out loud, to speak of their hunger and pain and loneliness and humor, to make them visible so they cannot be ravaged in the dark without great consequence, so that our center, our point, our motor, our dream, is no longer detached, mutilated, numb, broken, invisible, or ashamed.

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  Dream, Pain, Women

  Eve Ensler (1998). “The Vagina Monologues”, Villard Books

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• Unless men are active allies, we'll never end violence against women and girls.

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  Girl, Men, Allies

  "The Saturday interview: Vagina Monologues author Eve Ensler". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2011.

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• An activist is someone who cannot help but fight for something. That person is not usually motivated by a need for power or money or fame, but in fact is driven slightly mad by some injustice, some cruelty, some unfairness, so much so that he or she is compelled by some internal moral engine to act to make it better.

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  Fighting, Compassion, Mad

  Jody Williams, Eve Ensler (2013). “My Name is Jody Williams: A Vermont Girl's Winding Path to the Nobel Peace Prize”, p.9, Univ of California Press

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• Good is towing the line, being behaved, being quiet, being passive, fitting in, being liked, and great is being messy, having a belly, speaking your mind, standing up for what you believe in, fighting for another paradigm, not letting people talk you out of what you know to be true.

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  Believe, Fighting, People

  "Women Leading the Way" by Robin Amos Kahn, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 11, 2013.

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• Why don't we teach sex the way we teach math or history? It is such a deeply crucial and healing part of life and we offer no road map. I think it is core to ending violence.

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  Sex, Healing, Math

  Interview with Kevin Powell, bknation.org. May 1, 2014.

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• When you rape, beat, maim, mutilate, burn, bury, and terrorize women, you destroy the essential life energy on the planet.

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  Energy, Essentials, Beats

  Eve Ensler (2001). “The Vagina Monologues: The V-Day Edition”, p.32, Villard

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• Dancing insists we take up space, and though it has no set direction, we go there together. Dance is dangerous, joyous, sexual, holy, disruptive, and contagious and it breaks the rules. It can happen anywhere, at anytime, with anyone and everyone, and it's free. Dance joins us and pushes us to go further and that is why it's at the center of ONE BILLION RISING.

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  Dance, Moving Forward, Space

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• Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars. Learn how to drive a stick shift. Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back. Say no when you don’t want to do something. Say yes if your instincts are strong, even if everyone around you disagrees. Decide whether you want to be liked or admired. Decide if fitting in is more important than finding out what you’re doing here. Believe in kissing.

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  Life, Strong, Stars

  "I Am an Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls Around the World". Book by Eve Ensler, 2010.

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• Well, the tyranny of masculinity and the tyranny of patriarchy I think has been much more deadly to men than it has to women. It hasn’t killed our hearts. It’s killed men’s hearts. It’s silenced them, it’s cut them off.

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  Heart, Cutting, Men

  "Exclusive Interview With Eve Ensler, Recipient of the 2011 Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2011.

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• One of the most radical things women can do is to love their body.

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  Body, Radical, Can Do

  "Eve Ensler on Cancer, Her Body and 'The Body of the World'". Interview with Jean Fain, L.I.C.S.W., M.S.W., www.huffingtonpost.com. April 26, 2013.

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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.

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  Stories, Way

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• In the United States, the last recorded clitoridectomy for curing masturbation was performed in 1948--on a five year old girl.

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  Girl, Years, United States

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• I think what's been true across the board is the universal patriarchy, the fear of women ever being born back into complete sexuality and life-force. This manifests itself in different cultural variances, but that's really what's going on everywhere.

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  Thinking, Different, Boards

  "Avocados and Vaginas". Interview with Joe Saxon, www.thestateofthearts.co.uk. May 16, 2015.

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• Be transparent as wind, be as possible and relentless and dangerous, be what moves things forward without needing to leave a mark, be part of this collection of molecules that begins somewhere unknown and can't help but keep rising. Rising.Rising. Rising.

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  Moving, Wind, Molecules

  Eve Ensler (2013). “In the Body of the World: A Memoir of Cancer and Connection”, p.217, Macmillan

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• Give voice to what you know to be true, and do not be afraid of being disliked or exiled. I think that's the hard work of standing up for what you see.

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  Strong Women, Hard Work, Thinking

  "Feminism: A Moral Compass for Change?" by Barbara Hannah Grufferman, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 12, 2010.

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• If you listen to the real in you, that part that's pulsing and has questions and is trying to figure something out, it will shape your life in a way where, when you get to be sixty, you'll succeed. You'll be happy about your life.

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  Real, Trying, Shapes

  "The Big Idea: Eve Ensler". Interview with Suzanne Koven, therumpus.net. June 12, 2013.

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• 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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  Issues, Abnormal, Violence

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• You know I think so many of us live outside our bodies. My dream is that people will find a way back home, into their bodies, to connect with the earth, to connect with each other, to connect with the poor, to connect with the broken, to connect with the needy, to connect with people calling out all around us, to connect with the beauty, poetry, the wildness.

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  Dream, Home, Thinking

  "Interview with Eve Ensler: In The Body of the World". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 29, 2013.

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• If you are divided from your body, then you are divided from the body of the world.

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  World, Body, Divided

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• I think when people begin to tell their stories, everything changes, because not only are you legitimized in the telling of your story and are you found, literally, like you matter, you exist in the telling of your story, but when you hear your story be told, you suddenly exist in community and with others.

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  Thinking, People, Community

  "Eve Ensler on Art and Activism". Interview with Michael Cathcart, www.abc.net.au. December 26, 2012.

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• When we give in the world what we want the most, we heal the broken part inside each of us.

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  Motivation, Inspiration, Broken

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• Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back.

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  Far Away, Coming Back, Being Afraid

  Eve Ensler (2010). “I Am an Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls Around the World”, p.139, Villard

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