Eve Ensler
Eve Ensler
Eve Ensleris an American playwright, performer, feminist, and activist, best known for her play The Vagina Monologues. Charles Isherwood of the New York Times has called The Vagina Monologues "probably the most important piece of political theater of the last decade."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth25 May 1953
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
struggle people working-together
What I feel now is connected to people. I feel connected and I feel a lot of love for people. I feel the possibility of what building social movements and what working together in struggle creates. Whatever that energy is, it feels a lot better than what I felt when I was younger - which was worthless and disconnected and isolated and alone.
dream home thinking
You know I think so many of us live outside our bodies. My dream is that people will find a way back home, into their bodies, to connect with the earth, to connect with each other, to connect with the poor, to connect with the broken, to connect with the needy, to connect with people calling out all around us, to connect with the beauty, poetry, the wildness.
tired honor victory
I don't get tired, because every time a woman doesn't die or doesn't get beaten or doesn't get raped or doesn't get honor-killed or doesn't get acid-burned, it's a huge victory.
order broken giving
You have to give to the world the thing that you want the most, in order to fix the broken parts inside you.
issues abnormal violence
We have not yet made violence against women abnormal, extraordinary, unacceptable. We have not yet come to see it as a pathological issue.
identity okay prove
We can't walk where we want to walk or be who we want to be or dress the way we want to dress or go anywhere any time of day. I am talking about the freedom that comes with just knowing that you're okay, and that you have value and you have identity, and you don't have to keep proving yourself.
body purpose pleasure
The clitoris is pure in purpose. It is the only organ in the body designed purely for pleasure.
stories way
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.
motivation inspiration sick
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.
goes-on levels body
Everything you deny is actually killing you on some level. You see something, you feel something wrong with your body, you pretend it's not happening, it goes on, it grows, it gets worse.
doctors would-be levels
To have insurance and have a diagnosis and to have doctors, I just felt it would be immoral on some level to complain.
community together helping
Freedom, that's the kind of power I'm interested in. When we help each other get free, then it's not about anybody being on top or anybody being on the bottom. It's about being together, in a community.
taken years differences
I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense. (xxvi)
cancer greed awareness
The cancer in me became an awareness of the cancer that is everywhere. The cancer of cruelty, the cancer of carelessness, the cancer of greed.