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Dance has a transformative effect on bodily trauma.

Eve Ensler

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Eve Ensler
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: May 25
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New York City
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I don't get tired, because every time a woman doesn't die or doesn't get beaten or doesn't get raped or doesn't get honor-killed or doesn't get acid-burned, it's a huge victory.
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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 to be honest, that being is inside. I meet that being in so many people that I meet everywhere in the world and when I do meet that being, in other people, what I want to ask is How do we keep opening ourselves so that we can become as vulnerable and as willing to live in the deepest complexity and ambiguity and truth that we can?
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I despise charity. It gives crumbs to a few and silences the others.
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Since cancer, I feel like I have dreams rather than ambitions, visions rather than plans.
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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.
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