Danger lurks when people are dissociated and detached from their own story or feelings. — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
Theater has an incredible capacity to move people to social change, to address issues, to inspire social revolution. — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
Do I think it's great that we have a celebrity system where some people matter and some people don't? No. But do… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
Writing and giving voice to what I am feeling makes me happy. And supporting people in finding their voice, passion, outrage and… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
I think so much of neoliberalism and capitalism has caused people to live in a state of greed, fear and consumption that… — 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… — 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
People think that when you're connected with other people it's more painful. The opposite is true. When you're connected to the river… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
Today the United States has the highest prison population in the world, over 2.1 million people. ... We lock people up at… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
I am worried about this word, this notion - security. I see this word, hear this word, feel this word everywhere. Security… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
We live in a racist world. Everywhere there is racism. We say to White people, "You really have to examine how you… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
Good is towing the line, being behaved, being quiet, being passive, fitting in, being liked, and great is being messy, having a… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
I think for me, happiness is crucial, but I think we think that happiness comes from amassing goods and getting things and… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
I am not saying people shouldn't be held accountable for terrible acts. But holding people in prisons does not necessarily make them… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
My dream is that people will find a way back home, into their bodies, to connect with the earth, to connect with… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
What we all have to know is the struggle is long. It's long. It may not end in our lifetimes. But the… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
I think there are so many children being brought up in some form of violence, be it violence of poverty or sexism… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
There is a beautiful expression in Nicaragua: "struggle is the highest form of song". I love that. We are in the struggle.… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
Rock-and-roll was an example of change in the body of the culture. I think it's really what helped bring the anti-war movement… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
I think culture is where things change in us deeply. But right now, I think that people are very traumatised. They are… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
Security is elusive. It's impossible. We all die. We all get old. We all get sick. People leave us. People change us.… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
I try not to think about what people think of me. You can't, because then you get hung up in all the… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
We have to know people who are outside of our own circle, we have to reach out to people we don't know,… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
The fact that women have been moving forward, that a woman was running for president, that we had a black president -… — 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
The people who are on the front lines every day in hospitals, nurses, the people who are running clinics, the people who… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
People are sad. People are broke. People are worried about money, people are worried that they're not enough and not amounting to… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
I really believe that is helping people. I've been talking to oncologists about how we can re-frame and re-think the chemo process,… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
I really do think how we frame things determines so much of our experience, and I've been talking to a lot of… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
People didn't feel so much shame around it and that they didn't feel so much humiliation around it. And the other thing… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
You know I think so many of us live outside our bodies. My dream is that people will find a way back… — 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… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
I think to be honest, that being is inside. I meet that being in so many people that I meet everywhere in… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
What I feel now is connected to people. I feel connected and I feel a lot of love for people. I feel… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
I think when people begin to tell their stories, everything changes, because not only are you legitimised in the telling of your… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
We have no idea how many women were raped in wars - because no one ever asked. So sometimes when people say… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
Denial is really death. People think that when you're connected with other people it's more painful. The opposite is true. When you're… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
I feel very passionate that we need CAT scanners in every country in the world. There's not a CAT scanner in all… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
I think the thing that has always made me happy is being in the struggle, in a community of struggle with other… — 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
