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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.

Eve Ensler

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Eve Ensler
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: May 25
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