Eve Ensler quotes

Eve Ensler is an American playwright, performer, and activist, best known for writing "The Vagina Monologues." Her works have sparked global conversations around women’s rights and gender-based violence. She continues to inspire activism and social change through her art and advocacy. Here are 93 of her quotes:

I want to touch you in real time not find you on YouTube, I want to walk next to you in the mountains not friend you on Facebook.

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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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When you rape, beat, maim, mutilate, burn, bury, and terrorize women, you destroy the essential life energy on the planet.

Eve Ensler

In the United States, the last recorded clitoridectomy for curing masturbation was performed in 1948--on a five year old girl.

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

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When you bring consciousness to anything, things begin to shift.

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stop fixing your bodies and start fixing the world!

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...find freedom, aliveness, and power not from what contains, locates, or protects us, but from what dissolves, reveals, and expands us.

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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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Security isn't what I hunger for. I hunger for change. I hunger for connection.

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...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 be ravaged in the dark without great consequence.

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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, and with being this alive, this intense. (xxvi)

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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 killing us.

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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 other.

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One of the most radical things women can do is to love their body.

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I think when people begin to tell their stories, everything changes, because not only are you legitimized 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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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 bodies, to connect with the earth, to connect with each other, to connect with the poor, to connect with the broken, to connect with the needy, to connect with people calling out all around us, to connect with the beauty, poetry, the wildness.

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When we give in the world what we want the most, we heal the broken part inside each of us.

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Unless men are active allies, we'll never end violence against women and girls.

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Dance is holy, sexual, and it's a way of being very powerful and a little dangerous without being violent.

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People are sad. People are broke. People are worried about money, people are worried that they're not enough and not amounting to anything and they don't feel good about themselves. People have rough times, and everybody's pretending it's not true, and we need to break that veneer.

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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 your life.

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