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I am so grateful to be alive. It's ridiculous to be alive.

Eve Ensler

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Eve Ensler
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: May 25
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I think many of us get separated from the mothership - our body - early on. I think the mothership is also the Earth, and life itself. Trauma separates us from that and dissociates us from our hearts.
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I got to a nine-hour surgery, I lost lots of body parts and rearranged, I got really months of infection that I lost 30 pounds. But the idea of pumping poison into my bloodstream just - I couldn't, I couldn't.
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When you listen to other women’s stories, you begin to understand your own better, and you begin to find ways back through and with each other.
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I wake up every day and I think, 'I'm breathing! It's a good day.'
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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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We're always learning. We're all in the process of decolonizing ourselves - removing all the parts of us that are sexist, homophobic, transphobic, racist. I mean, everybody in society needs to be in this process because everybody's been brought up in a misogynist, racist, homophobic, transphobic culture.
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One of the things I think about when we talk about a violence,and relationship to spirituality is that it seems to me when you take something from someone that isn't yours or you hurt someone else, fundamentally, you actually do that to yourself. You actually unmake yourself, you work against your own being and your own matter.
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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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Once you are diagnosed with cancer, time changes. It both speeds up insanely and stops altogether.
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Women are the primary resource of the planet. They give birth, we come from them. They are mothers, they are visionaries, they are the future. If we can figure out how to make women feel safe and honor women, it would be parallel or equal to honoring life itself.
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I despise charity. It gives crumbs to a few and silences the others.
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You have visits, then you have disappearances. You enter, then you exit. You come, you go. It would be so great if you could just get to human enlightenment on a linear path.
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When I wrote 'The Good Body,' I turned 40 and suddenly had this stomach. It seemed like the end of the world. Because I didn't value my body. I was constantly judging it, but I also didn't live in it.
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Danger lurks when people are dissociated and detached from their own story or feelings.
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What I have found is that even when you try to transform existing structures they are so powerful they often overwhelm, seduce, and control you.
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Stop trying to fix your body. It was never broken.
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You have to give to the world the thing that you want the most, in order to fix the broken parts inside you.
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Why are women immobile? Because so many feel like they’re waiting for someone to say, You’re good, you’re pretty, I give you permission.
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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.
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