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Portrait of Eve Ensler

Eve Ensler

(1953) Actor United States

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Eve Ensler is an actor from the United States, best known for The Vagina Monologues.

Quick Facts About Eve Ensler

Born: May 25, 1953
Nationality: United States
Profession: Actor
Notable works: The Vagina Monologues

About Eve Ensler

V, formerly Eve Ensler, writes plays and performs. She created the famous play The Vagina Monologues, which Charles Isherwood of The New York Times called in 2006 ‘probably the most important piece of political theater of the last decade.’ Her work focuses on feminist and activist themes.

Awards & Honors

Isabelle Stevenson Award Guggenheim Fellowship

Quotes by Eve Ensler · Page 2

I feel passionate about nurses. I would do anything for nurses. Anything.

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The love is all around us. I made a life of love.

Life

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My commitment originated in my own story and my own relationship to violence.

Commitment

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Security isn't what I hunger for. I hunger for change. I hunger for connection.

Change

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

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stop fixing your bodies and start fixing the world!

Body

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

Breathing

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

Body

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I'm in good shape. My cancer means I have lost a lot of organs and I'm a lot lighter. I have devoted…

Cancer

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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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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…

Appreciation

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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…

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

America

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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…

Cancer

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I think the world is always improving and always not improving. I think that both are simultaneously happening all the time.

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Once you are diagnosed with cancer, time changes. It both speeds up insanely and stops altogether.

Cancer

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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…

Body

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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…

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I grew up in a tradition where having ideas and contributing to the community and creating art that had an impact on…

Art

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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…

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Freedom, that's the kind of power I'm interested in. When we help each other get free, then it's not about anybody being…

Being together

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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…

Activism

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I think the world is always improving and always not improving. I think that both are simultaneously happening all the time. I…

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What happened with cancer was that I just became a body. There was nothing else but body for a month. I was…

Body

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We get off track. Capitalism takes us off track. You get off the "real" and get on the "wheel." The "wheel" becomes…

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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…

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I think for me, happiness is crucial, but I think we think that happiness comes from amassing goods and getting things and…

Being loved

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“The clitoris is pure in purpose. It is the only organ in the body designed purely for pleasure. The clitoris is simply…

Clitoris

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With the Gulf spill, I absolutely merged in the time when I had that infection. I couldn't get out of the Gulf…

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But my body was telling its story. I have read a lot of stuff about cancer. I needed this book. I wish…

Abuse

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Then there was sex, which, for me, was such a need. When I was younger, I had a need to have sex…

Book

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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…

Being afraid

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Dance has a transformative effect on bodily trauma.

Dance

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I am so grateful to be alive. It's ridiculous to be alive.

Alive

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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…

Awareness

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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.

Desperate

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Whatever culture, whatever country, girls are taught to please others as opposed to pleasing themselves.

Country

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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…

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

Body

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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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Eve Ensler by topic

Thinking (63) People (42) Body (39) World (28) Life (22) Cancer (20) Violence (17) Love (17) Women (16) Giving (15) Time (13) Feminism (13) Earth (13) Freedom (10)