--- title: "13 Knows Quotes By Eve Ensler" description: "13 Knows quotes by Eve Ensler. Plus more from Eve Ensler and more Knows sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a7c/eve-ensler-1402_body_i-think-we-have-made-progress-there-s-no_1450304.jpg" --- > [I think we have made progress. There's no doubt about it, we have moved forward. But there's some essential, core thing that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-ensler/i-think-we-have-made-progress-there-s-no-doubt-about-it-we-have-moved/) [Eve Ensler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-ensler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a7c/eve-ensler-1402_body_i-think-we-have-made-progress-there-s-no_1450304.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) > [Give voice to what you know to be true, and do not be afraid of being disliked or exiled. I think that's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-ensler/give-voice-to-what-you-know-to-be-true-and-do-not-be-afraid-of-being/) [Eve Ensler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-ensler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/718/eve-ensler-1402_being-true_give-voice-to-what-you-know-to-be-true-a_1798936.jpg) > [You will touch this joy and you will suddenly know it is what you were looking for your whole life, but you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-ensler/you-will-touch-this-joy-and-you-will-suddenly-know-it-is-what-you/) [Eve Ensler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-ensler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e6/eve-ensler-1402_absence_you-will-touch-this-joy-and-you-will-sud_2504708.jpg) > [It really occurred to me at a certain point: women have not been embodied. Feminism has not been embodied. It hasn't gotten…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-ensler/it-really-occurred-to-me-at-a-certain-point-women-have-not-been/) [Eve Ensler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-ensler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f7f/eve-ensler-1402_certain_it-really-occurred-to-me-at-a-certain-po_2878933.jpg) > [To love women, to love our vaginas, to know them and touch them and be familiar with who we are and what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-ensler/to-love-women-to-love-our-vaginas-to-know-them-and-touch-them-and-be/) [Eve Ensler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-ensler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9dd/eve-ensler-1402_ashamed_to-love-women-to-love-our-vaginas-to-kno_3173486.jpg) > [You know I think so many of us live outside our bodies. My dream is that people will find a way back…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-ensler/you-know-i-think-so-many-of-us-live-outside-our-bodies-my-dream-is/) [Eve Ensler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-ensler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a5c/eve-ensler-1402_back-home_you-know-i-think-so-many-of-us-live-outs_703302.jpg) > [I can only describe it as: the whole experience was imprinted on my body. And when I started to write it, it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-ensler/i-can-only-describe-it-as-the-whole-experience-was-imprinted-on-my/) [Eve Ensler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-ensler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ac6/eve-ensler-1402_body_i-can-only-describe-it-as-the-whole-expe_1669040.jpg) > [What we all have to know is the struggle is long. It's long. It may not end in our lifetimes. But the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-ensler/what-we-all-have-to-know-is-the-struggle-is-long-it-s-long-it-may-not/) [Eve Ensler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-ensler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b58/eve-ensler-1402_activism_what-we-all-have-to-know-is-the-struggle_3000212.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) > [Then there was sex, which, for me, was such a need. When I was younger, I had a need to have sex…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-ensler/then-there-was-sex-which-for-me-was-such-a-need-when-i-was-younger-i/) [Eve Ensler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-ensler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c5e/eve-ensler-1402_book_then-there-was-sex-which-for-me-was-such_647259.jpg) > [Maybe being good isn't about getting rid of anything. Maybe being good has to do with living in the mess in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-ensler/maybe-being-good-isn-t-about-getting-rid-of-anything-maybe-being-good/) [Eve Ensler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-ensler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/08b/eve-ensler-1402_age_maybe-being-good-isn-t-about-getting-rid_426750.jpg) > [I think the world is always improving and always not improving. I think that both are simultaneously happening all the time. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-ensler/i-think-the-world-is-always-improving-and-always-not-improving-i/) [Eve Ensler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-ensler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/88c/eve-ensler-1402_always-improving_i-think-the-world-is-always-improving-an_675108.jpg) ## Other authors on Knows ## 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/knows/eve-ensler/#itemlist", "name": "13 Knows Quotes By Eve Ensler", "numberOfItems": 13, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I think we have made progress. There's no doubt about it, we have moved forward. But there's some essential, core thing that has not been deconstructed. 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I tell people to take time out of activism every day to take care of their bodies, to take care of their souls and spirits.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Eve Ensler" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-ensler/what-we-all-have-to-know-is-the-struggle-is-long-it-s-long-it-may-not/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b58/eve-ensler-1402_activism_what-we-all-have-to-know-is-the-struggle_3000212.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b58/eve-ensler-1402_activism_what-we-all-have-to-know-is-the-struggle_3000212.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b58/eve-ensler-1402_activism_what-we-all-have-to-know-is-the-struggle_3000212.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“What we all have to know is the struggle is long. It's long. It may not end in our lifetimes. 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