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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.
Eve Ensler
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Eve Ensler
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: May 25
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When we give in the world what we want the most, we heal the broken part inside each of us.
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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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I am so grateful to be alive. It's ridiculous to be alive.
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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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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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Why don't we bring everyone up to be caring and compassionate, to believe that we are connected with everyone and everything around us?
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Security is elusive. It's impossible. We all die. We all get old. We all get sick. People leave us. People change us. Nothing is secure.
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I want to read so I can read the Koran read the signs in the street know the number of the bus I'm supposed to take when I one day leave this house.
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People are more afraid to love than they are to kill.
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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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Once you are diagnosed with cancer, time changes. It both speeds up insanely and stops altogether.
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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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Some days I would get so exhausted, nauseous, in pain - just from going back through things. It's almost as if I had the experience and then the meta-experience.
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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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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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You have visits, then you have disappearances. You enter, then you exit. You come, you go. It would be so great if you could just get to human enlightenment on a linear path.
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Stop trying to fix your body. It was never broken.
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I think to be cut off from your heart is the greatest tyranny in the world.
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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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