--- title: "22 Way Quotes By Eve Ensler" description: "22 Way quotes by Eve Ensler. Plus more from Eve Ensler and more Way sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ee5/eve-ensler-1402_dance_dance-is-holy-sexual-and-it-s-a-way-of-b_1930637.jpg" --- > [Dance is holy, sexual, and it's a way of being very powerful and a little dangerous without being violent.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-ensler/dance-is-holy-sexual-and-it-s-a-way-of-being-very-powerful-and-a/) [Eve Ensler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-ensler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ee5/eve-ensler-1402_dance_dance-is-holy-sexual-and-it-s-a-way-of-b_1930637.jpg) > [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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/56f/eve-ensler-1402_body_i-have-been-struggling-to-find-my-way-ba_6227.jpg) > [The older you get, the more you are aware that everybody has a certain way of seeing things, which they have to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-ensler/the-older-you-get-the-more-you-are-aware-that-everybody-has-a-certain/) [Eve Ensler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-ensler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dee/eve-ensler-1402_aware_the-older-you-get-the-more-you-are-aware_1188160.jpg) > [Why don't we teach sex the way we teach math or history? It is such a deeply crucial and healing part of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-ensler/why-don-t-we-teach-sex-the-way-we-teach-math-or-history-it-is-such-a/) [Eve Ensler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-ensler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/622/eve-ensler-1402_art-of-life_why-don-t-we-teach-sex-the-way-we-teach_1289746.jpg) > [There is just so much excess in terms of the market for self-remodeling. I think most women are perfectly gorgeous and beautiful…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-ensler/there-is-just-so-much-excess-in-terms-of-the-market-for-self/) [Eve Ensler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-ensler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/58c/eve-ensler-1402_beautiful_there-is-just-so-much-excess-in-terms-of_488928.jpg) > [What happens when someone throws you against a wall or tells you you're a jackass or puts you down or calls you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-ensler/what-happens-when-someone-throws-you-against-a-wall-or-tells-you-you/) [Eve Ensler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-ensler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8f5/eve-ensler-1402_body_what-happens-when-someone-throws-you-aga_3070083.jpg) > [What neo-capitalism does so brilliantly is that it's always subdividing and dividing, so that people are never able to be joined in…](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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ae7/eve-ensler-1402_able_what-neo-capitalism-does-so-brilliantly_49342.jpg) > [I'm a feminist; I grew up with feminism, but I also think there's a way in which we need to shake things…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-ensler/i-m-a-feminist-i-grew-up-with-feminism-but-i-also-think-there-s-a-way/) [Eve Ensler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-ensler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c4e/eve-ensler-1402_also_i-m-a-feminist-i-grew-up-with-feminism-b_2104050.jpg) > [I think we just have to look at all the ways in which we are violating the Earth, each other, economic violence,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-ensler/i-think-we-just-have-to-look-at-all-the-ways-in-which-we-are/) [Eve Ensler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-ensler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aae/eve-ensler-1402_cooperating_i-think-we-just-have-to-look-at-all-the_1942522.jpg) > [When you listen to other women’s stories, you begin to understand your own better, and you begin to find ways back through…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-ensler/when-you-listen-to-other-women-s-stories-you-begin-to-understand-your/) [Eve Ensler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-ensler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a9d/eve-ensler-1402_back_when-you-listen-to-other-women-s-stories_397230.jpg) > [There's an underlying puritanicalness in America that is not that different to the prudishness of Britain - it just manifests itself in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-ensler/there-s-an-underlying-puritanicalness-in-america-that-is-not-that/) [Eve Ensler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-ensler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/601/eve-ensler-1402_america_there-s-an-underlying-puritanicalness-in_2001543.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) > [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) > [When I was younger I was much more polemical and didactic, much less trusting. Inherently my own vision of the world would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-ensler/when-i-was-younger-i-was-much-more-polemical-and-didactic-much-less/) [Eve Ensler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-ensler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f7d/eve-ensler-1402_actor_when-i-was-younger-i-was-much-more-polem_434702.jpg) > [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-ensler/i-really-believe-that-is-helping-people-i-ve-been-talking-to/) [Eve Ensler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-ensler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/843/eve-ensler-1402_believe_i-really-believe-that-is-helping-people_1825882.jpg) > [We can't walk where we want to walk or be who we want to be or dress the way we want to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-ensler/we-can-t-walk-where-we-want-to-walk-or-be-who-we-want-to-be-or-dress/) [Eve Ensler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-ensler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f3b/eve-ensler-1402_dresses_we-can-t-walk-where-we-want-to-walk-or-b_1844460.jpg) > [What if, instead of being afraid of even talking about death, we saw our lives in some ways as preparation for it.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-ensler/what-if-instead-of-being-afraid-of-even-talking-about-death-we-saw/) [Eve Ensler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-ensler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/25a/eve-ensler-1402_being-afraid_what-if-instead-of-being-afraid-of-even_1754582.jpg) > [Trauma dissociates us from the parts of our body that are wounded, so we have to leave our whole body. It's a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-ensler/trauma-dissociates-us-from-the-parts-of-our-body-that-are-wounded-so/) [Eve Ensler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-ensler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/07f/eve-ensler-1402_body_trauma-dissociates-us-from-the-parts-of_3197269.jpg) > [With the Gulf spill, I absolutely merged in the time when I had that infection. I couldn't get out of the Gulf…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-ensler/with-the-gulf-spill-i-absolutely-merged-in-the-time-when-i-had-that/) [Eve Ensler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-ensler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/67c/eve-ensler-1402_bleeding_with-the-gulf-spill-i-absolutely-merged_2201318.jpg) > [If you listen to the real in you, that part that's pulsing and has questions and is trying to figure something out,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-ensler/if-you-listen-to-the-real-in-you-that-part-that-s-pulsing-and-has/) [Eve Ensler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-ensler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0dc/eve-ensler-1402_figures_if-you-listen-to-the-real-in-you-that-pa_2055056.jpg) > [My dream is that people will find a way back home, into their bodies, to connect with the earth, to connect with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-ensler/my-dream-is-that-people-will-find-a-way-back-home-into-their-bodies/) [Eve Ensler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-ensler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0d5/eve-ensler-1402_around_my-dream-is-that-people-will-find-a-way_1397645.jpg) > [For me, so much of my life has been this attempt to find my way back into my body. I tried various…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-ensler/for-me-so-much-of-my-life-has-been-this-attempt-to-find-my-way-back/) [Eve Ensler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-ensler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5c9/eve-ensler-1402_art_for-me-so-much-of-my-life-has-been-this_744847.jpg) ## Other authors on Way ## 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/way/eve-ensler/#itemlist", "name": "22 Way Quotes By Eve Ensler", "numberOfItems": 22, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Dance is holy, sexual, and it's a way of being very powerful and a little dangerous without being violent.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Eve Ensler" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-ensler/dance-is-holy-sexual-and-it-s-a-way-of-being-very-powerful-and-a/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ee5/eve-ensler-1402_dance_dance-is-holy-sexual-and-it-s-a-way-of-b_1930637.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ee5/eve-ensler-1402_dance_dance-is-holy-sexual-and-it-s-a-way-of-b_1930637.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ee5/eve-ensler-1402_dance_dance-is-holy-sexual-and-it-s-a-way-of-b_1930637.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Dance is holy, sexual, and it's a way of being very powerful and a little dangerous without being violent.” — Eve Ensler", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I have been struggling to find my way back into my body my whole life.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Eve Ensler" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-ensler/i-have-been-struggling-to-find-my-way-back-into-my-body-my-whole-life/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/56f/eve-ensler-1402_body_i-have-been-struggling-to-find-my-way-ba_6227.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/56f/eve-ensler-1402_body_i-have-been-struggling-to-find-my-way-ba_6227.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/56f/eve-ensler-1402_body_i-have-been-struggling-to-find-my-way-ba_6227.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I have been struggling to find my way back into my body my whole life.” — Eve Ensler", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The older you get, the more you are aware that everybody has a certain way of seeing things, which they have to honour.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Eve Ensler" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-ensler/the-older-you-get-the-more-you-are-aware-that-everybody-has-a-certain/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dee/eve-ensler-1402_aware_the-older-you-get-the-more-you-are-aware_1188160.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dee/eve-ensler-1402_aware_the-older-you-get-the-more-you-are-aware_1188160.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dee/eve-ensler-1402_aware_the-older-you-get-the-more-you-are-aware_1188160.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The older you get, the more you are aware that everybody has a certain way of seeing things, which they have…” — Eve Ensler", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Why don't we teach sex the way we teach math or history? 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