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What I have found is that even when you try to transform existing structures they are so powerful they often overwhelm, seduce, and control you.
Eve Ensler
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Eve Ensler
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: May 25
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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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Since cancer, I feel like I have dreams rather than ambitions, visions rather than plans.
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I think the human species is very suicidal.
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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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