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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 and I'm doing handstands.

Eve Ensler

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Eve Ensler
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: May 25
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Each time I had five hours of the poison going into me, I just pictured everything that needed to be burned away. I pictured wars, I pictured the things my father had done to me, I pictured brutality, and when it was over, I am light.
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I think to be honest, that being is inside. I meet that being in so many people that I meet everywhere in the world and when I do meet that being, in other people, what I want to ask is How do we keep opening ourselves so that we can become as vulnerable and as willing to live in the deepest complexity and ambiguity and truth that we can?
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If you listen to the real in you, that part that's pulsing and has questions and is trying to figure something out, it will shape your life in a way where, when you get to be sixty, you'll succeed. You'll be happy about your life.
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There were momentary visitations. I was a visitor, not an inhabitant. I think I say that at the beginning of the book: I have made visits to the earth in my body, but it's always been as a visitor.
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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 this collection of molecules that begins somewhere unknown and can't help but keep rising. Rising.Rising. Rising.
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I honestly never understood how violence against women became a women's issue. 95 percent of the violence men are doing to women.
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For many years now, I feel like my own body struggle has been linked and connected with women I meet in the world. I think we're in this together.
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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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Theater has an incredible capacity to move people to social change, to address issues, to inspire social revolution.
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You have to give to the world the thing that you want the most, in order to fix the broken parts inside you.
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Today the United States has the highest prison population in the world, over 2.1 million people. ... We lock people up at a rate that is seven to ten times that of any other democracy.
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I wake up every day and I think, 'I'm breathing! It's a good day.'
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I think what all of us have in common is that we've been taught and trained and programmed to focus on fixing and mutilating ourselves. That's a core reason why women do not have power in the world.
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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.
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What I have found is that even when you try to transform existing structures they are so powerful they often overwhelm, seduce, and control you.
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In America, we have a government that is now run by white nationalists, by billionaires, by incredible misogynists.
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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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I think what's been true across the board is the universal patriarchy, the fear of women ever being born back into complete sexuality and life-force. This manifests itself in different cultural variances, but that's really what's going on everywhere.
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Danger lurks when people are dissociated and detached from their own story or feelings.
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I have been struggling to find my way back into my body my whole life.
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