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 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 was born in Manhattan and grew up in Scarsdale. Scarsdale didn't work for me as a place at all.

— Eve Ensler

Since cancer, I feel like I have dreams rather than ambitions, visions rather than plans.

— Eve Ensler

Some days I would get so exhausted, nauseous, in pain - just from going back through things. It's almost as if I…

— Eve Ensler

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

— Eve Ensler

I'd stop calling it "chemotherapy." I'd call it "transformational juice." Infusion suites would become "transformational suites" or "journey rooms."

— Eve Ensler

We have not yet made violence against women abnormal, extraordinary, unacceptable. We have not yet come to see it as a pathological…

— Eve Ensler

“Prostration: placing the body in reverence, to submit, to surrender. In many faiths it is used to relinquish the ego. In Tibetan…

— Eve Ensler

Women not only get violated, but then we take on the struggle to end it too... As a man, how could the…

— Eve Ensler

My dream is that people will find a way back home, into their bodies, to connect with the earth, to connect with…

— Eve Ensler

I am not saying people shouldn't be held accountable for terrible acts. But holding people in prisons does not necessarily make them…

— Eve Ensler

I think of the security of cages. How violence, cruelty, oppression, become a kind of home, a familiar pattern, a cage, in…

— 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 it was really rock-and-roll stars, women who were breaking boundaries with their bodies and their voices and their beings…

— Eve Ensler

I got to a nine-hour surgery, I lost lots of body parts and rearranged, I got really months of infection that I…

— Eve Ensler

The world has done that already - possessed the Congo and pillaged her and dominated her and robbed her of agency and…

— Eve Ensler

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

In America, we have to really be working on two fronts right now. Immediately, we have to be rising in resistance and…

— 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

I can only describe it as: the whole experience was imprinted on my body. And when I started to write it, it…

— 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

When I was younger I was much more polemical and didactic, much less trusting. Inherently my own vision of the world would…

— 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

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

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 all my work's been about how do women get back into our bodies; how do men get back. We're all…

— Eve Ensler

Dance is holy, sexual, and it's a way of being very powerful and a little dangerous without being violent.

— 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

For many years now, I feel like my own body struggle has been linked and connected with women I meet in the…

— 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

“After all, the Indo-European word cunt was derived from the goddess Kunda or Cunti, and shares the same root as kin and…

— Eve Ensler

To have insurance and have a diagnosis and to have doctors, I just felt it would be immoral on some level to…

— Eve Ensler

Security is elusive. It's impossible. We all die. We all get old. We all get sick. People leave us. People change us.…

— Eve Ensler

I'm feeling a kind of liberty to write about what's interesting to me without worrying about what I should be writing about.…

— Eve Ensler

What I have found is that even when you try to transform existing structures they are so powerful they often overwhelm, seduce,…

— Eve Ensler

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

— Eve Ensler

…find freedom, aliveness, and power not from what contains, locates, or protects us, but from what dissolves, reveals, and expands us.

— Eve Ensler

Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars.

— Eve Ensler

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