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We have not yet made violence against women abnormal, extraordinary, unacceptable. We have not yet come to see it as a pathological issue.

Eve Ensler

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Eve Ensler
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: May 25
Actor
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Author
Autobiographer
Feminist
Playwright
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New York City
New York
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Violence

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