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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 mind, standing up for what you believe in, fighting for another paradigm, not letting people talk you out of what you know to be true.

Eve Ensler

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Eve Ensler
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: May 25
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Women are the primary resource of the planet. They give birth, we come from them. They are mothers, they are visionaries, they are the future. If we can figure out how to make women feel safe and honor women, it would be parallel or equal to honoring life itself.
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I think about Marvin Gaye and 'Sexual Healing.' What a radical idea that sex was healing. I learned my politics through that music.
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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 value my body. I was constantly judging it, but I also didn't live in it.
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It [the memoir In The Body of the World] wrote me. I joke about it, but this book was so unusual. It just started to come out. I really feel like it came straight from my body. I think it was both an expression of what I had gone through, but also it just felt like everything had come together in my body and it needed to tell that story.
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I don't get tired, because every time a woman doesn't die or doesn't get beaten or doesn't get raped or doesn't get honor-killed or doesn't get acid-burned, it's a huge victory.
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I wake up every day and I think, 'I'm breathing! It's a good day.'
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Success itself doesn't give you happiness. It's what you do with your success that gives you happiness.
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We must stop being polite and behaved and find new inventive tactics to shift the paradigm. We are the majority.
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I think we are seeing the absolute and utter collapse of male politicians in this [U.S] country and we're seeing what the underpinnings of the power structure are, which are sexist underpinnings.
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I think all my work's been about how do women get back into our bodies how do men get back. We're all disassociated.
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I despise charity. It gives crumbs to a few and silences the others.
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I would rate the fact that I get to be alive a big beautiful 10. Satisfaction with myself - work in progress.
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The mechanism of violence is what destroys women, controls women, diminishes women and keeps women in their so-called place.
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I think the world is always improving and always not improving. I think that both are simultaneously happening all the time. I don't think it's one motion unfortunately - I wish we could say it's better, better, better - but I think it's better, bad, better, bad - you know?
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I really want to help stop violence toward women.
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I'd stop calling it chemotherapy. I'd call it transformational juice. Infusion suites would become transformational suites or journey rooms.
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People didn't feel so much shame around it and that they didn't feel so much humiliation around it. And the other thing that people have given me a lot of feedback about - something I'm very excited about - is all the stuff around chemo as an empathetic warrior.
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I feel sometimes with boys that the tyranny of patriarchy has had a much more devastating blow on boys than it has on anyone. Because they have literally been forced to disassociate from their hearts.
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If you were around in the '60s, you already know that music and art and love are a critical part of the revolution. This is how we fight.
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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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