When I wrote 'The Good Body,' I turned 40 and suddenly had this stomach. It seemed like the end of the world.… — 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… — 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
When I was younger I was much more polemical and didactic, much less trusting. Inherently my own vision of the world would… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
When we give in the world what we want the most, we heal the broken part inside each of us. — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
You have to give to the world the thing that you want the most, in order to fix the broken parts inside… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
I grew up in a tradition where having ideas and contributing to the community and creating art that had an impact on… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
I think what all of us have in common is that we've been taught and trained and programmed to focus on fixing… — 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
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
I think the world is always improving and always not improving. I think that both are simultaneously happening all the time. I… — 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
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
For many years now, I feel like my own body struggle has been linked and connected with women I meet in the… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
I think I've always had these two currents, equally strong, of wanting to change the world and make the world better and… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
It [the memoir "In The Body of the World"] wrote me. I joke about it, but this book was so unusual. It… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
If you are divided from your body, then you are divided from the body of the world. — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
What I would argue is that real spirituality is the ability to keep encountering two opposite thoughts at the same time and… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
If the theatre has taught me anything, it's that when things change in the body, in the body politic, in the body… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
I think the world is always improving and always not improving. I think that both are simultaneously happening all the time. — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
I live with that contradiction daily. It is a constant struggle. I struggle very deeply. I don't think I've said this to… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
The world has done that already - possessed the Congo and pillaged her and dominated her and robbed her of agency and… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
I think to be cut off from your heart is the greatest tyranny in the world. — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
If I had a dream it would be to think, What would it be like for everybody to have the kind of… — 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