Eve Ensler Quotes - Page 4

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• We have to know people who are outside of our own circle, we have to reach out to people we don't know, we have to protect people who are in tremendous danger. And we also have to not get burned out and let our fear and anxiety and depression sink us. So there's lots of things we have to do right now!

  Eve Ensler

  Circles, People, Anxiety

  Source: www.elle.com

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• The devastation of neoliberalism is so multi-fold, whether it's violence against women or desperate economic inequality or the destruction of the planet.

  Eve Ensler

  Economic Inequality, Neoliberalism, Devastation

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

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• I think we just have to look at all the ways in which we are violating the Earth, each other, economic violence, racial violence, environmental violence - where we are dominating and not cooperating .

  Eve Ensler

  Thinking, Environmental, Looks

  "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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• There is a global epidemic where one out of three women will be beaten or sexually assaulted in their lifetimes? How are we going to build a future of love and connection? And why would this not be of utmost concern to men?

  Eve Ensler

  Men, Epidemics, Connections

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

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• We live in a racist world. Everywhere there is racism. We say to White people, "You really have to examine how you behave in the world. You are responsible for deconstructing internalized racism and being part of a ongoing process of decolonizing yourself.

  Eve Ensler

  White, Racism, People

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

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• The world has done that already - possessed the Congo and pillaged her and dominated her and robbed her of agency and occupation. Love is something else, something rising and contagious and surprising. It isn't aware of itself. It isn't keeping track. It isn't something you sign for. It's endless and generous and enveloping. It's in the drums, in the voices, in the bodies of the wounded made suddenly whole, by the music, by each other, dancing.

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  Love, Agency, Voice

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• What I feel now is connected to people. I feel connected and I feel a lot of love for people. I feel the possibility of what building social movements and what working together in struggle creates. Whatever that energy is, it feels a lot better than what I felt when I was younger - which was worthless and disconnected and isolated and alone.

  Eve Ensler

  Struggle, People, Working Together

  Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2013.

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• I think to be honest, that being is inside. I meet that being in so many people that I meet everywhere in the world and when I do meet that being, in other people, what I want to ask is "How do we keep opening ourselves so that we can become as vulnerable and as willing to live in the deepest complexity and ambiguity and truth that we can?

  Eve Ensler

  Thinking, People, World

  Interview with Carolyn Roark, www.ecumenicajournal.org. February 16, 2016.

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• We must stop being polite and behaved and find new inventive tactics to shift the paradigm. We are the majority.

  Eve Ensler

  Majority, Tactics, Polite

  "One Billion Rising" by Eve Ensler, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 14, 2012.

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• 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

  Thinking, Matter, Problem

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

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• I really do think how we frame things determines so much of our experience, and I've been talking to a lot of oncologists, like, why don't we call them transformation suites and give people transformation juice and have guides that support people when they're going through chemo so you could actually burn away what needs to be burned away, as opposed to this dread, terror, horror, which is a very different experience.

  Eve Ensler

  Thinking, Talking, Different Experiences

  "Playwright-activist Eve Ensler". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. May 22, 2013.

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• If you were around in the '60s, you already know that music and art and love are a critical part of the revolution. This is how we fight.

  Eve Ensler

  Art, Fighting, And Love

  Source: www.elle.com

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• If you look at capitalism and patriarchy, they're both such hierarchical, competitive, oneupmanship systems. They've trained us all [to think] that power means having all the goods or having the most money or having the most attention or having the most fame. That's not the power that interests me. Actually, the deconstruction of that power is what interests me.

  Eve Ensler

  Mean, Thinking, Looks

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• People are sad. People are broke. People are worried about money, people are worried that they're not enough and not amounting to anything and they don't feel good about themselves. People have rough times, and everybody's pretending it's not true, and we need to break that veneer.

  Eve Ensler

  People, Feel Good, Needs

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 22, 2013.

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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

  Cancer, Greed, Awareness

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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.

  Eve Ensler

  Doctors, Complaining, Would Be

  "Playwright-activist Eve Ensler". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. May 22, 2013.

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• Everything you deny is actually killing you on some level. You see something, you feel something wrong with your body, you pretend it's not happening, it goes on, it grows, it gets worse.

  Eve Ensler

  Goes On, Levels, Body

  "Playwright-activist Eve Ensler". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. May 22, 2013.

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• Terence McKenna says, "The culture is not your friend." I am not sure we can change this culture. But I think we can rise above it and create a new world. That's why I so deeply believe in alternative spaces. That's why I believe in the power of art and activism.

  Eve Ensler

  Art, Believe, Thinking

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

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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.

  Eve Ensler

  Thinking, Focus, Together

  "Down the vagina trail". Interview with Pamela Grossman, www.salon.com. April 19, 2000.

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• 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

  Struggle, Thinking, Years

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• I would rate the fact that I get to be alive a big beautiful 10. Satisfaction with myself - work in progress.

  Eve Ensler

  Beautiful, Progress, Alive

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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.

  Eve Ensler

  Cancer, Kind, Like You

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• Wouldn't it be incredible if everyone could be purged, somehow, of the projected not-them badness that they internalized and perhaps have acted out because their souls have been so damaged? Wouldn't it be incredible if everyone could find the joy that comes with committing to our own goodness? Perhaps we would stop dividing ourselves into malignancies of various forms.

  Eve Ensler

  Joy, Soul, Incredibles

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• Today the United States has the highest prison population in the world, over 2.1 million people. ... We lock people up at a rate that is seven to ten times that of any other democracy.

  Eve Ensler

  Prison Population, People, Democracy

  Eve Ensler (2006). “Insecure at Last: Losing It in Our Security-Obsessed World”, p.124, Villard

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• I really want to help stop violence toward women.

  Eve Ensler

  Want, Violence, Helping

  "Down the vagina trail". Interview with Pamela Grossman, www.salon.com. April 19, 2000.

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