"Well, the tyranny of masculinity and the tyranny……" — Eve Ensler
"Well, the tyranny of masculinity and the tyranny of patriarchy I think has been much more deadly to men than it has to women. It hasn't killed our hearts. It's killed men's hearts. It's silenced them; it's cut them off."
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69 Quotes by Eve Ensler
Eve Ensler has 69 quotes on this site.
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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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