Struggle Quotes by Eve Ensler

9 Struggle quotes by Eve Ensler

Ensler’s activism centers on confronting systemic abuse. These nine brief statements illuminate her view of struggle as a catalyst for empowerment.

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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 have been struggling to find my way back into my body my whole life.

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I live with that contradiction daily. It is a constant struggle. I struggle very deeply. I don't think I've said this to…

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We have to bridge and join our struggles and understand how we can't fight violence against women without looking at racism, we…

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For many years now, I feel like my own body struggle has been linked and connected with women I meet in the…

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Women not only get violated, but then we take on the struggle to end it too... As a man, how could the…

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What we all have to know is the struggle is long. It's long. It may not end in our lifetimes. But the…

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What I feel now is connected to people. I feel connected and I feel a lot of love for people. I feel…

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There is a beautiful expression in Nicaragua: "struggle is the highest form of song". I love that. We are in the struggle.…

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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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