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Once you are diagnosed with cancer, time changes. It both speeds up insanely and stops altogether.

Eve Ensler

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Eve Ensler
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: May 25
Actor
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New York City
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Cancer
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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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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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