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There were momentary visitations. I was a visitor, not an inhabitant. I think I say that at the beginning of the book: I have made visits to the earth in my body, but it's always been as a visitor.

Eve Ensler

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Eve Ensler
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: May 25
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Security is elusive. It's impossible. We all die. We all get old. We all get sick. People leave us. People change us. Nothing is secure.
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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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It really occurred to me at a certain point: women have not been embodied. Feminism has not been embodied. It hasn't gotten into us in a way where it is so undeniable that there is nothing to prove. Do you know what I mean? That we are so in our feminist skin, so to speak, that we are that world now.
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I feel passionate about nurses. I would do anything for nurses. Anything.
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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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Do you say that tree isn't pretty cause it doesn't look like that tree? We're all trees. You're a tree. I'm a tree. You've got to love your body, Eve. You've got to love your tree. Love your tree. (Leah)
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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 would rate the fact that I get to be alive a big beautiful 10. Satisfaction with myself - work in progress.
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Money doesn't make you special, it makes you lucky. Be generous, be crazy, be outrageous.
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The mechanism of violence is what destroys women, controls women, diminishes women and keeps women in their so-called place.
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I think the human species is very suicidal.
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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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People are more afraid to love than they are to kill.
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The devastation of neoliberalism is so multi-fold, whether it's violence against women or desperate economic inequality or the destruction of the planet.
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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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I feel very passionate that we need CAT scanners in every country in the world. There's not a CAT scanner in all of eastern Congo. People don't use the word cancer because they don't get diagnosed. They just die.
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I think we need to teach pleasure. What beautiful touch means. What reciprocity means. What being connected and what intimacy means. Boys get out there at a young age and the performance posturing is so great and ends up being hard and aggressive.
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It [the memoir In The Body of the World] wrote me. I joke about it, but this book was so unusual. It just started to come out. I really feel like it came straight from my body. I think it was both an expression of what I had gone through, but also it just felt like everything had come together in my body and it needed to tell that story.
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Since cancer, I feel like I have dreams rather than ambitions, visions rather than plans.
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