The minute someone tells you you have cancer, it's kind of like you die. You really do die. It's like you get… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
I'm in good shape. My cancer means I have lost a lot of organs and I'm a lot lighter. I have devoted… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
Before cancer, I was obviously disconnected. I had a tumor the size of a mango inside me and didn't do anything about… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
Once you are diagnosed with cancer, time changes. It both speeds up insanely and stops altogether. — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
The cancer in me became an awareness of the cancer that is everywhere. The cancer of cruelty, the cancer of carelessness, the… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
Since cancer, I feel like I have dreams rather than ambitions, visions rather than plans. — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
I'd stop calling it "chemotherapy." I'd call it "transformational juice." Infusion suites would become "transformational suites" or "journey rooms." — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
Our bodies are critical. If I learned anything from getting really bad cancer seven years ago, it's that your body is what… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
What happened with cancer was that I just became a body. There was nothing else but body for a month. I was… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
I think it was a realization of this cancer, an understanding of the broader implications of what cancer is. The greed, the… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
Look, you do everything in stages, right? I don't think everything happens at once. There are so many layers we are constantly… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
Cancer essentially lives in us and becomes activated at some point, and then cells begin to psychotically divide. Initially, the cancer cell… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
I feel very passionate that we need CAT scanners in every country in the world. There's not a CAT scanner in all… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
Cancer was the most terrifying, arduous, painful thing, but it was also a profound gift in the sense that I was holding… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
For me, so much of my life has been this attempt to find my way back into my body. I tried various… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
But my body was telling its story. I have read a lot of stuff about cancer. I needed this book. I wish… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
I really do think how we frame things determines so much of our experience, and I've been talking to a lot of… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
I really believe that is helping people. I've been talking to oncologists about how we can re-frame and re-think the chemo process,… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
My relationship to the desecration of the earth was very theoretical and intellectual until I got sick. I could never watch anything… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
Why aren't we looking at the causes of breast cancer? Why aren't we spending our energy on looking at what we're doing… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'The Good Body,' I turned 40 and suddenly had this stomach. It seemed like the end of the world. Because I… — Eve Ensler Copy Share
Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars. — Eve Ensler Copy Share
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 Copy Share
Terence McKenna says, "The culture is not your friend." I am not sure we can change this culture. But I think we can rise… — Eve Ensler Copy Share
What neo-capitalism does so brilliantly is that it's always subdividing and dividing, so that people are never able to be joined in their numbers… — Eve Ensler Copy Share
The verb that's been enforced on girls is to please. Girls are trained to please...I want us all to change the verb. I want… — Eve Ensler Copy Share
“De acordo com os congressistas, ouvir as experiências reais de mulheres vítimas de violência era diferente de ler as estatísticas de violência contra mulheres.… — Eve Ensler Copy Share
The clitoris is pure in purpose. It is the only organ in the body designed purely for pleasure. — Eve Ensler Copy Share
Anorexia was my attempt to have control over my body and manipulate my body and starve my body and shape my body. It was… — Eve Ensler Copy Share
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… — Eve Ensler Copy Share
People didn't feel so much shame around it and that they didn't feel so much humiliation around it. And the other thing that people… — Eve Ensler Copy Share
Cancer essentially lives in us and becomes activated at some point, and then cells begin to psychotically divide. Initially, the cancer cell looks like… — Eve Ensler Copy Share
Today the United States has the highest prison population in the world, over 2.1 million people. ... We lock people up at a rate… — Eve Ensler Copy Share
