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
trauma effects
Dance has a transformative effect on bodily trauma.
women violence mechanism
The mechanism of violence is what destroys women, controls women, diminishes women and keeps women in their so-called place.
christian religious smart
Between the combination of Judeo-Christian religious 'be good be good be good' and Capitalist 'something's wrong with you, buy this' and the parental upbringing, which is 'you're wrong, you're not thin enough, you're not smart enough' I mean, hello! We don't have a shot.
insecure people focus
I am worried about this word, this notion - security. I see this word, hear this word, feel this word everywhere. Security check. Security watch. Security clearance. Why has all this focus on security made me feel so much more insecure? ... Why are we suddenly a nation and a people who strive for security above all else?
majority tactics polite
We must stop being polite and behaved, and find new inventive tactics to shift the paradigm. We are the majority.
appreciation giving waiting
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'.
father good-relationship anorexia
Anorexia was my attempt to have control over my body and manipulate my body and starve my body and shape my body. It was not a very good relationship. It was the sort of relationship my father had to my body. It was a tyrannical, "you'll do what I tell you" relationship.
hate self depressed-person
I have been a depressed person most of m life. I was always in the throes of self-hatred.
cancer cutting reality
Why aren't we looking at the causes of breast cancer? Why aren't we spending our energy on looking at what we're doing to the earth? On the pollutants we're putting into the earth? And the pesticides we're putting into the earth? What we're releasing into the air? Instead, we just cut off more organs! That's where metaphor comes into it - not even metaphor as much as reality.
commitment violence stories
My commitment originated in my own story and my own relationship to violence.
empowering inspire seems
The only point of having power it seems to me is to empower others. The only point of leadership is to inspire.
cities giving joy
Three of the ten principles governing the City of Joy are (a) tell the truth, (b) stop waiting to be rescued, and (c) give away what you want the most.
broken trying body
Stop trying to fix your body. It was never broken.
want
Decide whether you want to be liked or admired.