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Earth Quotes by Eve Ensler

13 Earth quotes by Eve Ensler

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Eve Ensler’s reflections on Earth echo her lifelong commitment to justice and stewardship. Though limited in number, each quote captures her blend of compassion and urgency, making this a thoughtful starting point for readers drawn to her activist spirit.

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

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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:…

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I think we just have to look at all the ways in which we are violating the Earth, each other, economic violence,…

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I believe in fierce love, pushing the edge, calling the robbers, the corporates, the elites, the pillagers and insanely wealthy to task,…

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If the theatre has taught me anything, it's that when things change in the body, in the body politic, in the body…

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

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

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With the Gulf spill, I absolutely merged in the time when I had that infection. I couldn't get out of the Gulf…

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Why aren't we looking at the causes of breast cancer? Why aren't we spending our energy on looking at what we're doing…

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My relationship to the desecration of the earth was very theoretical and intellectual until I got sick. I could never watch anything…

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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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My dream is that people will find a way back home, into their bodies, to connect with the earth, to connect with…

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Trauma dissociates us from the parts of our body that are wounded, so we have to leave our whole body. It's a…

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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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