Culture Quotes by Eve Ensler

9 Culture quotes by Eve Ensler

Eve Ensler’s reflections on culture appear in nine succinct lines. They echo her passionate advocacy for gender equity, providing a concise, powerful window into her thoughts.

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Whatever culture, whatever country, girls are taught to please others as opposed to pleasing themselves.

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I grew up in a tradition where having ideas and contributing to the community and creating art that had an impact on…

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Political change and academic change and intellectual change are obviously crucial, but they don't necessarily change society. They can change a particular…

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Terence McKenna says, "The culture is not your friend." I am not sure we can change this culture. But I think we…

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We're always learning. We're all in the process of decolonizing ourselves - removing all the parts of us that are sexist, homophobic,…

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We get off track. Capitalism takes us off track. You get off the "real" and get on the "wheel." The "wheel" becomes…

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What I would say to young women is: Pay attention to the real. Pay attention to what you're really thirsting for. What…

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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…

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I think culture is where things change in us deeply. But right now, I think that people are very traumatised. They are…

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

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

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

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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'.

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Terence McKenna says, "The culture is not your friend." I am not sure we can change this culture. But I think we can rise…

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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…

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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…

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“De acordo com os congressistas, ouvir as experiências reais de mulheres vítimas de violência era diferente de ler as estatísticas de violência contra mulheres.…

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

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stop fixing your bodies and start fixing the world!

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

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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…

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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…

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

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Today the United States has the highest prison population in the world, over 2.1 million people. ... We lock people up at a rate…

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