--- title: "17 Ifs Quotes By Eve Ensler" description: "17 Ifs quotes by Eve Ensler. Plus more from Eve Ensler and more Ifs sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c61/eve-ensler-1402_exhausted_some-days-i-would-get-so-exhausted-nause_975254.jpg" --- > [Some days I would get so exhausted, nauseous, in pain - just from going back through things. It's almost as if I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-ensler/some-days-i-would-get-so-exhausted-nauseous-in-pain-just-from-going/) [Eve Ensler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-ensler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c61/eve-ensler-1402_exhausted_some-days-i-would-get-so-exhausted-nause_975254.jpg) > [I believe in irony. And if V-Day has taught me anything, it's that if you go out with artistic, outrageous irony and…](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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d52/eve-ensler-1402_artistic_i-believe-in-irony-and-if-v-day-has-taug_145825.jpg) > [If you are divided from your body, then you are divided from the body of the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-ensler/if-you-are-divided-from-your-body-then-you-are-divided-from-the-body/) [Eve Ensler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-ensler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/952/eve-ensler-1402_body_if-you-are-divided-from-your-body-then-y_1468144.jpg) > [If you were around in the '60s, you already know that music and art and love are a critical part of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-ensler/if-you-were-around-in-the-60s-you-already-know-that-music-and-art-and/) [Eve Ensler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-ensler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e92/eve-ensler-1402_and-love_if-you-were-around-in-the-60s-you-alread_845647.jpg) > [We have no idea how many women were raped in wars - because no one ever asked. So sometimes when people say…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-ensler/we-have-no-idea-how-many-women-were-raped-in-wars-because-no-one-ever/) [Eve Ensler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-ensler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8f6/eve-ensler-1402_hearing_we-have-no-idea-how-many-women-were-rape_2355158.jpg) > [What happens when someone throws you against a wall or tells you you're a jackass or puts you down or calls you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-ensler/what-happens-when-someone-throws-you-against-a-wall-or-tells-you-you/) [Eve Ensler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-ensler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8f5/eve-ensler-1402_body_what-happens-when-someone-throws-you-aga_3070083.jpg) > [If you just look at the fact that a woman was central in twittering the Cairo revolution, and women were central to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-ensler/if-you-just-look-at-the-fact-that-a-woman-was-central-in-twittering/) [Eve Ensler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-ensler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a94/eve-ensler-1402_cairo_if-you-just-look-at-the-fact-that-a-woma_2395449.jpg) > [If the theatre has taught me anything, it's that when things change in the body, in the body politic, in the body…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-ensler/if-the-theatre-has-taught-me-anything-it-s-that-when-things-change-in/) [Eve Ensler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-ensler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a53/eve-ensler-1402_body_if-the-theatre-has-taught-me-anything-it_1676361.jpg) > [I live with that contradiction daily. It is a constant struggle. I struggle very deeply. I don't think I've said this to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-ensler/i-live-with-that-contradiction-daily-it-is-a-constant-struggle-i/) [Eve Ensler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-ensler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/efb/eve-ensler-1402_congo_i-live-with-that-contradiction-daily-it_1917101.jpg) > [Women are the primary resource of the planet. They give birth, we come from them. They are mothers, they are visionaries, they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-ensler/women-are-the-primary-resource-of-the-planet-they-give-birth-we-come/) [Eve Ensler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-ensler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/23c/eve-ensler-1402_birth_women-are-the-primary-resource-of-the-pl_154800.jpg) > [Our bodies are critical. If I learned anything from getting really bad cancer seven years ago, it's that your body is what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-ensler/our-bodies-are-critical-if-i-learned-anything-from-getting-really-bad/) [Eve Ensler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-ensler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0d8/eve-ensler-1402_body_our-bodies-are-critical-if-i-learned-any_2369411.jpg) > [You have visits, then you have disappearances. You enter, then you exit. You come, you go. It would be so great if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-ensler/you-have-visits-then-you-have-disappearances-you-enter-then-you-exit/) [Eve Ensler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-ensler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d7a/eve-ensler-1402_buddhism_you-have-visits-then-you-have-disappeara_3145581.jpg) > [ If you look at capitalism and patriarchy, they're both such hierarchical, competitive, oneupmanship systems. They've trained us all \[to think\] that power… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-ensler/if-you-look-at-capitalism-and-patriarchy-they-re-both-such/) [Eve Ensler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-ensler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/60b/eve-ensler-1402_attention_if-you-look-at-capitalism-and-patriarchy_1377185.jpg) > [But my body was telling its story. I have read a lot of stuff about cancer. I needed this book. I wish…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-ensler/but-my-body-was-telling-its-story-i-have-read-a-lot-of-stuff-about/) [Eve Ensler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-ensler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/209/eve-ensler-1402_abuse_but-my-body-was-telling-its-story-i-have_2885045.jpg) > [We get off track. Capitalism takes us off track. You get off the "real" and get on the "wheel." The "wheel" becomes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-ensler/we-get-off-track-capitalism-takes-us-off-track-you-get-off-the-real/) [Eve Ensler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-ensler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/86b/eve-ensler-1402_achieve_we-get-off-track-capitalism-takes-us-off_967061.jpg) > [If I had a dream it would be to think, What would it be like for everybody to have the kind of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-ensler/if-i-had-a-dream-it-would-be-to-think-what-would-it-be-like-for/) [Eve Ensler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-ensler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e32/eve-ensler-1402_care_if-i-had-a-dream-it-would-be-to-think-wh_2713870.jpg) > [If you listen to the real in you, that part that's pulsing and has questions and is trying to figure something out,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-ensler/if-you-listen-to-the-real-in-you-that-part-that-s-pulsing-and-has/) [Eve Ensler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-ensler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0dc/eve-ensler-1402_figures_if-you-listen-to-the-real-in-you-that-pa_2055056.jpg) ## Other authors on Ifs ## 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/ifs/eve-ensler/#itemlist", "name": "17 Ifs Quotes By Eve Ensler", "numberOfItems": 17, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Some days I would get so exhausted, nauseous, in pain - just from going back through things. 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