Body Quotes by Eve Ensler

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

— Eve Ensler

I have been struggling to find my way back into my body my whole life.

— Eve Ensler

Stop trying to fix your body. It was never broken.

— Eve Ensler

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

— Eve Ensler

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

— Eve Ensler

stop fixing your bodies and start fixing the world!

— Eve Ensler

Everything you deny is actually killing you on some level. You see something, you feel something wrong with your body, you pretend…

— Eve Ensler

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

I began to see my body like an iPad or a car. I would drive it and demand things from it. It…

— Eve Ensler

Cancer essentially lives in us and becomes activated at some point, and then cells begin to psychotically divide. Initially, the cancer cell…

— Eve Ensler

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

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

— Eve Ensler

“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

Anorexia was my attempt to have control over my body and manipulate my body and starve my body and shape my body.…

— 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

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

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

When I wrote 'The Good Body,' I turned 40 and suddenly had this stomach. It seemed like the end of the world.…

— 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

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

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

— 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

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

— Eve Ensler

For me, so much of my life has been this attempt to find my way back into my body. I tried various…

— Eve Ensler

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

I think it was a realization of this cancer, an understanding of the broader implications of what cancer is. The greed, the…

— Eve Ensler

It [the memoir "In The Body of the World"] wrote me. I joke about it, but this book was so unusual. It…

— Eve Ensler

Dancing in public spaces and moving your body freely in a public space is reclaiming what was taken from you when you…

— Eve Ensler

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

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

— 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

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

Cancer was the most terrifying, arduous, painful thing, but it was also a profound gift in the sense that I was holding…

— Eve Ensler

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

— Eve Ensler

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

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

— 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

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

— Eve Ensler