It seems to me there's this tyranny that's not accidental or incidental, to make women feel compelled to look like somebody they're… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think we are seeing the absolute and utter collapse of male politicians in this [U.S] country and we're seeing what the… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
Women not only get violated, but then we take on the struggle to end it too... As a man, how could the… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
Well, the tyranny of masculinity and the tyranny of patriarchy I think has been much more deadly to men than it has… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
There is a global epidemic where one out of three women will be beaten or sexually assaulted in their lifetimes? How are… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
I think what's been true across the board is the universal patriarchy, the fear of women ever being born back into complete… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
I think what all of us have in common is that we've been taught and trained and programmed to focus on fixing… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
I was a young feminist in the '70s. Feminism saved my life. It gave me a life. But I saw how so… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
It really occurred to me at a certain point: women have not been embodied. Feminism has not been embodied. It hasn't gotten… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
If you just look at the fact that a woman was central in twittering the Cairo revolution, and women were central to… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
I'm a feminist; I grew up with feminism, but I also think there's a way in which we need to shake things… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
We have not yet made violence against women abnormal, extraordinary, unacceptable. We have not yet come to see it as a pathological… — 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