I have been a depressed person most of m life. I was always in the throes of self-hatred. — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
I think that anytime you get clear about what your mission is or what your focus wants to be, things start to… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
When you rape, beat, maim, mutilate, burn, bury, and terrorize women, you destroy the essential life energy on the planet. — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
“I am going to stop mainlining my life force / Into your self-esteem: / Air pump girl blowing up boy rubber ball… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
“... The desecration of women indicated the failure of human beings to honor and protect life and that this failing would, if… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
I've been involved in social activism my entire life, and I would argue that many people involved in social activist movements have… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
Why don't we teach sex the way we teach math or history? It is such a deeply crucial and healing part of… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
If you listen to the real in you, that part that's pulsing and has questions and is trying to figure something out,… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
“The heart is capable of sacrifice. So is the vagina. The heart is able to forgive and repair. It can change it's… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
You will touch this joy and you will suddenly know it is what you were looking for your whole life, but you… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
When I was younger I felt very disempowered, very disappeared. I felt worthless, like I had no right to exist. I think… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
Looking at it, I started crying. Maybe it was knowing that I had to give up the fantasy, the enormous life consuming… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
I think so much of my early life, even though I grew up White and middle class, I was completely shattered by… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
I think many of us get separated from the mothership - our body - early on. I think the mothership is also… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
For me, so much of my life has been this attempt to find my way back into my body. I tried various… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
“Slowly, it dawned on me that nothing was more important than stopping violence toward women—that the desecration of women indicated the failure… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars. Learn how to… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
I was a young feminist in the '70s. Feminism saved my life. It gave me a life. But I saw how so… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
“So much of life, it seems to me, is the framing and naming of things. I had been so busy creating a… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
“I was always reaching for love, but it turns out love doesn't involve reaching. I was always dreaming of the big love,… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'The Good Body,' I turned 40 and suddenly had this stomach. It seemed like the end of the world. Because I… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars. — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
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'. — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
Terence McKenna says, "The culture is not your friend." I am not sure we can change this culture. But I think we can rise… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
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… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
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… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
“De acordo com os congressistas, ouvir as experiências reais de mulheres vítimas de violência era diferente de ler as estatísticas de violência contra mulheres.… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
The clitoris is pure in purpose. It is the only organ in the body designed purely for pleasure. — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
Anorexia was my attempt to have control over my body and manipulate my body and starve my body and shape my body. It was… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
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… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
