Best Eve Ensler Quotes
- To love women, to love our vaginas, to know them and touch them and be familiar with who we are and what we need. To… Ashamed
- The world has done that already - possessed the Congo and pillaged her and dominated her and robbed her of agency and occupation. Love is… Age
- Wouldn't it be incredible if everyone could be purged, somehow, of the projected not-them badness that they internalized and perhaps have acted out because their… Acted
- When you listen to other women’s stories, you begin to understand your own better, and you begin to find ways back through and with each… Begin
- If you are connected to your own internal being, it is very hard to be screwing and destroying and hurting another human being, because you’ll… All
- I think for me, happiness is crucial, but I think we think that happiness comes from amassing goods and getting things and being loved and… Amassing
- I wake up every day and I think, 'I'm breathing! It's a good day.' Breathing
- I think that anytime you get clear about what your mission is or what your focus wants to be, things start to come together in… Anytime
- I think the greatest illusion we have is that denial protects us. It's actually the biggest distortion and lie. In fact, staying asleep is what's… Asleep
- When I wrote 'The Good Body,' I turned 40 and suddenly had this stomach. It seemed like the end of the world. Because I didn't… Body
- I'm in good shape. My cancer means I have lost a lot of organs and I'm a lot lighter. I have devoted myself to yoga… Cancer
- Looking at it, I started crying. Maybe it was knowing that I had to give up the fantasy, the enormous life consuming fantasy , that… Choose
- ...to speak of them out loud, to speak of their hunger and pain and loneliness and humour, to make them visible so that can not… Consequence
- Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back. Afraid
- I think of the security of cages. How violence, cruelty, oppression, become a kind of home, a familiar pattern, a cage, in which we know… Cage
- …find freedom, aliveness, and power not from what contains, locates, or protects us, but from what dissolves, reveals, and expands us. Aliveness
- Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars. Learn how to drive a stick… Admired
- I bet you're worried. I was worried. I was worried about vaginas. I was worried about what we think about vaginas, and even more worried… Bet
- I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different,… Alive
- Good is towing the line, being behaved, being quiet, being passive, fitting in, being liked, and great is being messy, having a belly, speaking your… Behaved
- It seems to me there's this tyranny that's not accidental or incidental, to make women feel compelled to look like somebody they're not. I think… Accidental
- There is just so much excess in terms of the market for self-remodeling. I think most women are perfectly gorgeous and beautiful the way they… Beautiful
- When you bring consciousness to anything, things begin to shift. Anything Things
- stop fixing your bodies and start fixing the world! Bodies
- In the United States, the last recorded clitoridectomy for curing masturbation was performed in 1948--on a five year old girl. Curing