Thinking Quotes by Eve Ensler

I wake up every day and I think, 'I'm breathing! It's a good day.'

— Eve Ensler

I think to be cut off from your heart is the greatest tyranny in the world.

— Eve Ensler

I think the human species is very suicidal.

— Eve Ensler

There is just so much excess in terms of the market for self-remodeling. I think most women are perfectly gorgeous and beautiful…

— Eve Ensler

I think about Marvin Gaye and 'Sexual Healing.' What a radical idea that sex was healing. I learned my politics through that…

— Eve Ensler

I think that's part of the whole denial and suicidal mechanism [ of the human's race] right "Oh my God, the house…

— Eve Ensler

I think one of the problems with the capitalist mainstream is this: no matter what you create to respond or resist it…

— Eve Ensler

I think we have a tendency in America to keep dividing ourselves, separating ourselves from each other.

— Eve Ensler

I think we have to get bolder. Why after Fukushima didn't we all go out and shut down all the nuclear power…

— Eve Ensler

I think the thing that has always made me happy is being in the struggle, in a community of struggle with other…

— Eve Ensler

I bet you're worried. I was worried. I was worried about vaginas. I was worried about what we think about vaginas, and…

— Eve Ensler

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

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

Why don't we teach sex the way we teach math or history? It is such a deeply crucial and healing part of…

— Eve Ensler

Denial is really death. People think that when you're connected with other people it's more painful. The opposite is true. When you're…

— Eve Ensler

I think many of us get separated from the mothership - our body - early on. I think the mothership is also…

— Eve Ensler

People need to dance. I'd say dance at least twice a day. That's how to get your energy up and how you…

— Eve Ensler

If you just look at the fact that a woman was central in twittering the Cairo revolution, and women were central to…

— Eve Ensler

I think to be honest, that being is inside. I meet that being in so many people that I meet everywhere in…

— Eve Ensler

I think culture is where things change in us deeply. But right now, I think that people are very traumatised. They are…

— Eve Ensler

If you look at capitalism and patriarchy, they're both such hierarchical, competitive, oneupmanship systems. They've trained us all [to think] that power…

— Eve Ensler

My relationship to the desecration of the earth was very theoretical and intellectual until I got sick. I could never watch anything…

— Eve Ensler

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

You know I think so many of us live outside our bodies. My dream is that people will find a way back…

— Eve Ensler

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

Rock-and-roll was an example of change in the body of the culture. I think it's really what helped bring the anti-war movement…

— Eve Ensler

Trauma dissociates us from the parts of our body that are wounded, so we have to leave our whole body. It's a…

— Eve Ensler

I think so much of neoliberalism and capitalism has caused people to live in a state of greed, fear and consumption that…

— Eve Ensler

I think that anytime you get clear about what your mission is or what your focus wants to be, things start to…

— Eve Ensler

Give voice to what you know to be true, and do not be afraid of being disliked or exiled. I think that's…

— Eve Ensler

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

— Eve Ensler

I live with that contradiction daily. It is a constant struggle. I struggle very deeply. I don't think I've said this to…

— Eve Ensler

I think so much of my early life, even though I grew up White and middle class, I was completely shattered by…

— Eve Ensler

Well, the tyranny of masculinity and the tyranny of patriarchy I think has been much more deadly to men than it has…

— Eve Ensler

I think we need to teach pleasure. What beautiful touch means. What reciprocity means. What being connected and what intimacy means. Boys…

— Eve Ensler

I think we just have to look at all the ways in which we are violating the Earth, each other, economic violence,…

— Eve Ensler

There were momentary visitations. I was a visitor, not an inhabitant. I think I say that at the beginning of the book:…

— Eve Ensler

I think we have made progress. There's no doubt about it, we have moved forward. But there's some essential, core thing that…

— Eve Ensler

We're in a crisis. We're in a crisis like I don't think America has ever known in my lifetime. But we have…

— Eve Ensler

When I was younger I felt very disempowered, very disappeared. I felt worthless, like I had no right to exist. I think…

— Eve Ensler