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Give voice to what you know to be true, and do not be afraid of being disliked or exiled. I think that's the hard work of standing up for what you see.
Eve Ensler
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Eve Ensler
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: May 25
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The people who are on the front lines every day in hospitals, nurses, the people who are running clinics, the people who are taking care of your children, those are the people who are the lovers of the world, are the good of the world.
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Once you are diagnosed with cancer, time changes. It both speeds up insanely and stops altogether.
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Naming things, breaking through taboos and denial is the most dangerous, terrifying, and crucial work. This has to happen in spite of political climates or coercions, in spite of careers being won or lost, in spite of the fear of being criticized, outcast, or disliked. I believe freedom begins with naming things. Humanity is preserved by it.
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When you rape, beat, maim, mutilate, burn, bury, and terrorize women, you destroy the essential life energy on the planet.
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Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars.
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An activist is someone who cannot help but fight for something. That person is not usually motivated by a need for power or money or fame, but in fact is driven slightly mad by some injustice, some cruelty, some unfairness, so much so that he or she is compelled by some internal moral engine to act to make it better.
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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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When you bring consciousness to anything, things begin to shift.
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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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The cancer in me became an awareness of the cancer that is everywhere. The cancer of cruelty, the cancer of carelessness, the cancer of greed.
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I am so grateful to be alive. It's ridiculous to be alive.
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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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I despise charity. It gives crumbs to a few and silences the others.
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