Eve Ensler

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

— Eve Ensler

When I wrote 'The Good Body,' I turned 40 and suddenly had this stomach. It seemed like the end of the world.…

— Eve Ensler

Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars.

— 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…

— Eve Ensler

Terence McKenna says, "The culture is not your friend." I am not sure we can change this culture. But I think we…

— 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…

— 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.…

— Eve Ensler

“De acordo com os congressistas, ouvir as experiências reais de mulheres vítimas de violência era diferente de ler as estatísticas de violência…

— Eve Ensler

The clitoris is pure in purpose. It is the only organ in the body designed purely for pleasure.

— Eve Ensler

stop fixing your bodies and start fixing the world!

— Eve Ensler

Anorexia was my attempt to have control over my body and manipulate my body and starve my body and shape my body.…

— 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…

— 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…

— Eve Ensler

Cancer essentially lives in us and becomes activated at some point, and then cells begin to psychotically divide. Initially, the cancer cell…

— Eve Ensler

Today the United States has the highest prison population in the world, over 2.1 million people. ... We lock people up at…

— Eve Ensler

Women are the primary resource of the planet. They give birth, we come from them. They are mothers, they are visionaries, they…

— Eve Ensler

“My trip to the former Yugoslavia had opened the world for me, and my hunger for the world. In doing so, it…

— Eve Ensler

“It's a totally ridiculous, completely unsexy word. If you use it during sex, trying to be politically correct-- "Darling, could you stroke…

— Eve Ensler

Success itself doesn't give you happiness. It's what you do with your success that gives you happiness.

— Eve Ensler

I think that anytime you get clear about what your mission is or what your focus wants to be, things start to…

— Eve Ensler

I'd stop calling it "chemotherapy." I'd call it "transformational juice." Infusion suites would become "transformational suites" or "journey rooms."

— Eve Ensler

Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back.

— Eve Ensler

I would rate the fact that I get to be alive a big beautiful 10. Satisfaction with myself - work in progress.

— Eve Ensler

“... The desecration of women indicated the failure of human beings to honor and protect life and that this failing would, if…

— Eve Ensler

“That we find freedom, aliveness and power not from what contains, locates, or protects us but from what dissolves, reveals and expands…

— Eve Ensler