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The minute someone tells you you have cancer, it's kind of like you die. You really do die. It's like you get that you're mortal.

Eve Ensler

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Eve Ensler
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: May 25
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Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars.
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I think the world is always improving and always not improving. I think that both are simultaneously happening all the time. I don't think it's one motion unfortunately - I wish we could say it's better, better, better - but I think it's better, bad, better, bad - you know?
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I think we have to get bolder. Why after Fukushima didn't we all go out and shut down all the nuclear power plants and stay there until it happened?
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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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The fact that women have been moving forward, that a woman was running for president, that we had a black president - I think there was, without a doubt, a whitelash and a complete backlash against the liberation of women, against the power of people of color.
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Dance has a transformative effect on bodily trauma.
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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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When I was younger I felt very disempowered, very disappeared. I felt worthless, like I had no right to exist. I think a good part of my life was spent recovering from that. Pulling myself out of that.
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Once you are diagnosed with cancer, time changes. It both speeds up insanely and stops altogether.
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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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Success itself doesn't give you happiness. It's what you do with your success that gives you happiness.
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Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back.
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Why don't we teach sex the way we teach math or history? It is such a deeply crucial and healing part of life and we offer no road map. I think it is core to ending violence.
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Stop trying to fix your body. It was never broken.
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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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I would rate the fact that I get to be alive a big beautiful 10. Satisfaction with myself - work in progress.
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We have no idea how many women were raped in wars - because no one ever asked. So sometimes when people say statistics have escalated, I wonder if, that is true or are we just hearing about things now that we didn't hear about before.
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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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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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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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