Feminism Quotes by Eve Ensler

13 Feminism quotes by Eve Ensler

Eve Ensler’s work bridges theater and activism, and these thirteen quotes capture her urgency for ending violence against women. They serve as a succinct rallying cry for anyone looking to amplify survivor voices.

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There is a global epidemic where one out of three women will be beaten or sexually assaulted in their lifetimes? How are…

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Well, the tyranny of masculinity and the tyranny of patriarchy I think has been much more deadly to men than it has…

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We have not yet made violence against women abnormal, extraordinary, unacceptable. We have not yet come to see it as a pathological…

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I'm a feminist; I grew up with feminism, but I also think there's a way in which we need to shake things…

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I think what's been true across the board is the universal patriarchy, the fear of women ever being born back into complete…

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I think what all of us have in common is that we've been taught and trained and programmed to focus on fixing…

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Women not only get violated, but then we take on the struggle to end it too... As a man, how could the…

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I think we are seeing the absolute and utter collapse of male politicians in this [U.S] country and we're seeing what the…

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If you just look at the fact that a woman was central in twittering the Cairo revolution, and women were central to…

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It really occurred to me at a certain point: women have not been embodied. Feminism has not been embodied. It hasn't gotten…

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I was a young feminist in the '70s. Feminism saved my life. It gave me a life. But I saw how so…

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I honestly never understood how violence against women became a women's issue. 95 percent of the violence men are doing to women.

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It seems to me there's this tyranny that's not accidental or incidental, to make women feel compelled to look like somebody they're…

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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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