--- title: "5 Burned Quotes By Eve Ensler" description: "5 Burned quotes by Eve Ensler. Plus more from Eve Ensler and more Burned sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ae/eve-ensler-1402_brutality_each-time-i-had-five-hours-of-the-poison_783452.jpg" --- > [Each time I had five hours of the poison going into me, I just pictured everything that needed to be burned away.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-ensler/each-time-i-had-five-hours-of-the-poison-going-into-me-i-just/) [Eve Ensler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-ensler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ae/eve-ensler-1402_brutality_each-time-i-had-five-hours-of-the-poison_783452.jpg) > [I really do think how we frame things determines so much of our experience, and I've been talking to a lot of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-ensler/i-really-do-think-how-we-frame-things-determines-so-much-of-our/) [Eve Ensler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-ensler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/017/eve-ensler-1402_burned_i-really-do-think-how-we-frame-things-de_800462.jpg) > [We have to know people who are outside of our own circle, we have to reach out to people we don't know,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-ensler/we-have-to-know-people-who-are-outside-of-our-own-circle-we-have-to/) [Eve Ensler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-ensler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/98a/eve-ensler-1402_anxiety_we-have-to-know-people-who-are-outside-o_1588135.jpg) > [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-ensler/i-really-believe-that-is-helping-people-i-ve-been-talking-to/) [Eve Ensler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-ensler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/843/eve-ensler-1402_believe_i-really-believe-that-is-helping-people_1825882.jpg) > [I don't get tired, because every time a woman doesn't die or doesn't get beaten or doesn't get raped or doesn't get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-ensler/i-don-t-get-tired-because-every-time-a-woman-doesn-t-die-or-doesn-t/) [Eve Ensler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-ensler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/46e/eve-ensler-1402_acid_i-don-t-get-tired-because-every-time-a-w_1851726.jpg) ## Other authors on Burned ## More by Eve Ensler > [I have been struggling to find my way back into my body my whole life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-ensler/i-have-been-struggling-to-find-my-way-back-into-my-body-my-whole-life/) [Eve Ensler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-ensler/) > [When I wrote 'The Good Body,' I turned 40 and suddenly had this stomach. It seemed like the end of the world. Because I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-ensler/when-i-wrote-the-good-body-i-turned-40-and-suddenly-had-this-stomach/) [Eve Ensler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-ensler/) > [Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-ensler/cherish-your-solitude-take-trains-by-yourself-to-places-you-have/) [Eve Ensler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-ensler/) > [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'.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-ensler/why-are-women-immobile-because-so-many-feel-like-they-re-waiting-for/) [Eve Ensler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-ensler/) > [Terence McKenna says, "The culture is not your friend." I am not sure we can change this culture. But I think we can rise…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-ensler/terence-mckenna-says-the-culture-is-not-your-friend-i-am-not-sure-we/) [Eve Ensler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-ensler/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-ensler/what-neo-capitalism-does-so-brilliantly-is-that-it-s-always/) [Eve Ensler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-ensler/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-ensler/the-verb-that-s-been-enforced-on-girls-is-to-please-girls-are-trained/) [Eve Ensler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-ensler/) > [“De acordo com os congressistas, ouvir as experiências reais de mulheres vítimas de violência era diferente de ler as estatísticas de violência contra mulheres.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-ensler/de-acordo-com-os-congressistas-ouvir-as-experi-ncias-reais-de/) [Eve Ensler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-ensler/) > [The clitoris is pure in purpose. It is the only organ in the body designed purely for pleasure.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-ensler/the-clitoris-is-pure-in-purpose-it-is-the-only-organ-in-the-body/) [Eve Ensler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-ensler/) > [stop fixing your bodies and start fixing the world!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-ensler/stop-fixing-your-bodies-and-start-fixing-the-world/) [Eve Ensler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-ensler/) > [Anorexia was my attempt to have control over my body and manipulate my body and starve my body and shape my body. It was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-ensler/anorexia-was-my-attempt-to-have-control-over-my-body-and-manipulate/) [Eve Ensler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-ensler/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-ensler/i-believe-in-irony-and-if-v-day-has-taught-me-anything-it-s-that-if/) [Eve Ensler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-ensler/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-ensler/people-didn-t-feel-so-much-shame-around-it-and-that-they-didn-t-feel/) [Eve Ensler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-ensler/) > [Cancer essentially lives in us and becomes activated at some point, and then cells begin to psychotically divide. Initially, the cancer cell looks like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-ensler/cancer-essentially-lives-in-us-and-becomes-activated-at-some-point/) [Eve Ensler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-ensler/) > [Today the United States has the highest prison population in the world, over 2.1 million people. ... We lock people up at a rate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-ensler/today-the-united-states-has-the-highest-prison-population-in-the/) [Eve Ensler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-ensler/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/burned/eve-ensler/#itemlist", "name": "5 Burned Quotes By Eve Ensler", "numberOfItems": 5, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Each time I had five hours of the poison going into me, I just pictured everything that needed to be burned away. 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