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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.

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 feel very passionate that we need CAT scanners in every country in the world. There's not a CAT scanner in all of eastern Congo. People don't use the word cancer because they don't get diagnosed. They just die.
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I despise charity. It gives crumbs to a few and silences the others.
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Once you are diagnosed with cancer, time changes. It both speeds up insanely and stops altogether.
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We have no idea how many women were raped in wars - because no one ever asked. So sometimes when people say statistics have escalated, I wonder if, that is true or are we just hearing about things now that we didn't hear about before.
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Look, you do everything in stages, right? I don't think everything happens at once. There are so many layers we are constantly chipping away at, down and down and down, closer and closer to what would be the body. I think what happened with cancer, was that I woke up out of nine hours of surgery and I was body. I was just body.
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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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It is almost a guarantee that in the pursuit of security you will become more insecure. Inherent in the quest for security is its undoing.
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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 the verb. I want the verb to be educate, or activate, or engage, or confront, or defy, or create.
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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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People are more afraid to love than they are to kill.
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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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Stop trying to fix your body. It was never broken.
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To have insurance and have a diagnosis and to have doctors, I just felt it would be immoral on some level to complain.
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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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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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We must stop being polite and behaved and find new inventive tactics to shift the paradigm. We are the majority.
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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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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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I think the human species is very suicidal.
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