If you are divided from your body, then you are divided from the body of the world. — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
The clitoris is pure in purpose. It is the only organ in the body designed purely for pleasure. — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
Everything you deny is actually killing you on some level. You see something, you feel something wrong with your body, you pretend… — 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
There were momentary visitations. I was a visitor, not an inhabitant. I think I say that at the beginning of the book:… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
For many years now, I feel like my own body struggle has been linked and connected with women I meet in the… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
I began to see my body like an iPad or a car. I would drive it and demand things from it. It… — 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 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
It [the memoir "In The Body of the World"] wrote me. I joke about it, but this book was so unusual. It… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
There are three billion women in the world who have vaginas. I don't think we can stop fighting for our sexual liberation,… — 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
Dancing in public spaces and moving your body freely in a public space is reclaiming what was taken from you when you… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
Anorexia was my attempt to have control over my body and manipulate my body and starve my body and shape my body.… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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
Maybe being good isn't about getting rid of anything. Maybe being good has to do with living in the mess in the… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The world has done that already - possessed the Congo and pillaged her and dominated her and robbed her of agency and… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
“Do you say that tree isn't pretty cause it doesn't look like that tree? We're all trees. You're a tree. I'm a… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
What we all have to know is the struggle is long. It's long. It may not end in our lifetimes. But the… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
Political change and academic change and intellectual change are obviously crucial, but they don't necessarily change society. They can change a particular… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
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 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.… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
I can only describe it as: the whole experience was imprinted on my body. And when I started to write it, it… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
You know I think so many of us live outside our bodies. My dream is that people will find a way back… — 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
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
If the theatre has taught me anything, it's that when things change in the body, in the body politic, in the body… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
I think many of us get separated from the mothership - our body - early on. I think the mothership is also… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
What happens when someone throws you against a wall or tells you you're a jackass or puts you down or calls you… — 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 Image
Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars. — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
The clitoris is pure in purpose. It is the only organ in the body designed purely for pleasure. — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
![“It [the memoir "In The Body of the World"] wrote me. I joke about it, but this book was so unusual. It just started to come out. I really feel like it came straight from my body. I think it was both an expression of what I had gone through, but also it just felt like everything had come together…” quote by Eve Ensler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7b7/eve-ensler-1402_body_it-the-memoir-in-the-body-of-the-world-w_1456030.jpg)
