Made Quotes by Eve Ensler

9 Made quotes by Eve Ensler

Eve Ensler’s nine brief statements about making echo her advocacy for empowerment. They offer a compact, powerful look at how creation can be a force for change.

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The love is all around us. I made a life of love.

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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 think the thing that has always made me happy is being in the struggle, in a community of struggle with other…

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I think violence against women in America has become ordinary - it's been made absolutely acceptable.

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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 am worried about this word, this notion - security. I see this word, hear this word, feel this word everywhere. Security…

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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 have made progress. There's no doubt about it, we have moved forward. But there's some essential, core thing that…

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The world has done that already - possessed the Congo and pillaged her and dominated her and robbed her of agency and…

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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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