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I think we just have to look at all the ways in which we are violating the Earth, each other, economic violence, racial violence, environmental violence - where we are dominating and not cooperating .

Eve Ensler

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Eve Ensler
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: May 25
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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.
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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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I began to see my body like an iPad or a car. I would drive it and demand things from it. It had no limits. It was invincible. It was to be conquered and mastered like the Earth herself.
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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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I'm a nomad. I have a place in New York in the Flatiron District, and I have a place in Paris in Ile Saint-Louis, and I spend a lot of time in Congo.
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