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Eve Ensler
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: May 25
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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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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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Theater has an incredible capacity to move people to social change, to address issues, to inspire social revolution.
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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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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'm a nomad. I have a place in New York in the Flatiron District, and I have a place in Paris in Ile Saint-Louis, and I spend a lot of time in Congo.
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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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Money doesn't make you special, it makes you lucky. Be generous, be crazy, be outrageous.
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Why are women immobile? Because so many feel like they’re waiting for someone to say, You’re good, you’re pretty, I give you permission.
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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 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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It really occurred to me at a certain point: women have not been embodied. Feminism has not been embodied. It hasn't gotten into us in a way where it is so undeniable that there is nothing to prove. Do you know what I mean? That we are so in our feminist skin, so to speak, that we are that world now.
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We're in a crisis. We're in a crisis like I don't think America has ever known in my lifetime. But we have to keep joy in our lives, love in our lives, poetry in our lives, dancing in our lives.
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I think we just have to look at all the ways in which we are violating the Earth, each other, economic violence, racial violence, environmental violence - where we are dominating and not cooperating .
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I really want to help stop violence toward women.
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Stop trying to fix your body. It was never broken.
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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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When you bring consciousness to anything, things begin to shift.
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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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When you rape, beat, maim, mutilate, burn, bury, and terrorize women, you destroy the essential life energy on the planet.
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