"I think when people begin to tell their……" — Eve Ensler
"I think when people begin to tell their stories, everything changes, because not only are you legitimised in the telling of your story and are you found, literally, like you matter, you exist in the telling of your story, but when you hear your story be told, you suddenly exist in community and with others."
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Eve Ensler
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69 Quotes by Eve Ensler
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I began to see my body like an iPad or a car. I would drive it and demand things from…
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Why are women immobile? Because so many feel like they're waiting for someone to say, 'You're good, you're pretty, I…
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I have been a depressed person most of m life. I was always in the throes of self-hatred.
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Real security is contemplating death, not pretending it doesn't exist.
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Money doesn't make you special, it makes you lucky. Be generous, be crazy, be outrageous.
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The clitoris is pure in purpose. It is the only organ in the body designed purely for pleasure.
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Women are the primary resource of the planet. They give birth, we come from them. They are mothers, they are…
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Security is elusive. It's impossible. We all die. We all get old. We all get sick. People leave us. People…
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The verb that's been enforced on girls is to please. Girls are trained to please...I want us all to change…
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You know I think so many of us live outside our bodies. My dream is that people will find a…
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Be transparent as wind, be as possible and relentless and dangerous, be what moves things forward without needing to leave…
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Stop trying to fix your body. It was never broken.
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