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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.

Eve Ensler

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Eve Ensler
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: May 25
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When you rape, beat, maim, mutilate, burn, bury, and terrorize women, you destroy the essential life energy on the planet.
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For many years now, I feel like my own body struggle has been linked and connected with women I meet in the world. I think we're in this together.
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