Look, you do everything in stages, right? I don't think everything happens at once. There are so many layers we are constantly chipping away at, down and down and down, closer and closer to what would be the body. 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 forms, from promiscuity, to eating disorders, to performance art. And I think it wasn't until I got cancer,… — 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
