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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.
Eve Ensler
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Eve Ensler
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: May 25
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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.
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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 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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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 really want to help stop violence toward women.
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I despise charity. It gives crumbs to a few and silences the others.
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If I had a dream it would be to think, What would it be like for everybody to have the kind of health care I had? What would that feel like? How would that be, to live in that world? Because I'll tell you, to be really, really sick, and to not have money. That is terrifying. And in my opinion, a travesty.
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Since cancer, I feel like I have dreams rather than ambitions, visions rather than plans.
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What we all have to know is the struggle is long. It's long. It may not end in our lifetimes. But the struggle is what gives our lives meaning and purpose. I tell people to take time out of activism every day to take care of their bodies, to take care of their souls and spirits.
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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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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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The devastation of neoliberalism is so multi-fold, whether it's violence against women or desperate economic inequality or the destruction of the planet.
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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 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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When you rape, beat, maim, mutilate, burn, bury, and terrorize women, you destroy the essential life energy on the planet.
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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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I think we have made progress. There's no doubt about it, we have moved forward. But there's some essential, core thing that has not been deconstructed. And I'm telling you, it's connected to the body. I know it is.
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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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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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In America, we have a government that is now run by white nationalists, by billionaires, by incredible misogynists.
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