Eve Ensler Quotes

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• I began to see my body like an iPad or a car. I would drive it and demand things from it. It had no limits.…
• 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'.
• I have been a depressed person most of m life. I was always in the throes of self-hatred.
• Real security is contemplating death, not pretending it doesn't exist.
• Money doesn't make you special, it makes you lucky. Be generous, be crazy, be outrageous.
• The clitoris is pure in purpose. It is the only organ in the body designed purely for pleasure.
• Women are the primary resource of the planet. They give birth, we come from them. They are mothers, they are visionaries, they are the future.…
• Security is elusive. It's impossible. We all die. We all get old. We all get sick. People leave us. People change us. Nothing is secure.
• 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 the…
• You know I think so many of us live outside our bodies. My dream is that people will find a way back home, into their…
• Be transparent as wind, be as possible and relentless and dangerous, be what moves things forward without needing to leave a mark, be part of…
• Stop trying to fix your body. It was never broken.
• Give voice to what you know to be true, and do not be afraid of being disliked or exiled. I think that's the hard work…
• Three of the ten principles governing the City of Joy are (a) tell the truth, (b) stop waiting to be rescued, and (c) give away…
• The only point of having power it seems to me is to empower others. The only point of leadership is to inspire.
• My commitment originated in my own story and my own relationship to violence.
• Dance is holy, sexual, and it's a way of being very powerful and a little dangerous without being violent.
• Naming things, breaking through taboos and denial is the most dangerous, terrifying, and crucial work. This has to happen in spite of political climates or…
• It seems to me that we spend an inordinate amount of time and attention on fixing ourselves when we could really be directing that out…
• Dancing insists we take up space, and though it has no set direction, we go there together. Dance is dangerous, joyous, sexual, holy, disruptive, and…

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