Eve Ensler Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• When we give in the world what we want the most, we heal the broken part inside each of us.

  Eve Ensler

  Motivation, Inspiration, Broken

• You have to give to the world the thing that you want the most, in order to fix the broken parts inside you.

  Eve Ensler

  Order, Broken, Giving

• Looking at it, I started crying. Maybe it was knowing that I had to give up the fantasy, the enormous life consuming fantasy , that someone or something was going to do this for me – the fantasy that someone was coming to lead my life, to choose direction, to give me orgasms.

  Eve Ensler

  Giving Up, Knowing, Fantasy

  Eve Ensler (2001). “The Vagina Monologues: The V-Day Edition”, p.48, Villard

• Give voice to what you know to be true, and do not be afraid of being disliked or exiled. I think that's the hard work of standing up for what you see.

  Eve Ensler

  Strong Women, Hard Work, Thinking

  "Feminism: A Moral Compass for Change?" by Barbara Hannah Grufferman, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 12, 2010.

• I think for me, happiness is crucial, but I think we think that happiness comes from amassing goods and getting things and being loved and being successful, when in fact my experience of happiness comes when you give everything away, when you serve people, when you're watching something you do make somebody happy, that's when happiness happens.

  Eve Ensler

  Successful, Thinking, People

  "Eve Ensler on art and activism". "Books and Arts" with Michael Cathcart, www.abc.net.au. February 15, 2012.

• 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."

  Eve Ensler

  Appreciation, Giving, Waiting

  "Eve Ensler on “good” bodies and bad politics". Interview with Andi Zeisler, www.motherjones.com. November, 2004.

• 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.

  Eve Ensler

  Cities, Giving, Joy

  Eve Ensler (2013). “In the Body of the World: A Memoir of Cancer and Connection”, p.212, Macmillan

• Success itself doesn't give you happiness. It's what you do with your success that gives you happiness.

  Eve Ensler

  Giving

  Source: www.fanpop.com

• Writing and giving voice to what I am feeling makes me happy. And supporting people in finding their voice, passion, outrage and resistance. There is nothing better than that.

  Eve Ensler

  Passion, Writing, Voice

  Interview with Kevin Powell, bknation.org. May 1, 2014.

• I despise charity. It gives crumbs to a few and silences the others.

  Eve Ensler

  Giving, Silence, Charity

  Eve Ensler (2013). “In the Body of the World: A Memoir of Cancer and Connection”, p.215, Macmillan

• I really do think how we frame things determines so much of our experience, and I've been talking to a lot of oncologists, like, why don't we call them transformation suites and give people transformation juice and have guides that support people when they're going through chemo so you could actually burn away what needs to be burned away, as opposed to this dread, terror, horror, which is a very different experience.

  Eve Ensler

  Thinking, Talking, Different Experiences

  "Playwright-activist Eve Ensler". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. May 22, 2013.

• I live with that contradiction daily. It is a constant struggle. I struggle very deeply. I don't think I've said this to anyone, but I've wondered if I just want to give up this world and live in the Congo and just be there. But I don't think that's what they need from me.

  Eve Ensler

  Giving Up, Struggle, Thinking

  "The Big Idea: Eve Ensler". Interview with Suzanne Koven, therumpus.net. June 12, 2013.

• Women are the primary resource of the planet. They give birth, we come from them. They are mothers, they are visionaries, they are the future. If we can figure out how to make women feel safe and honor women, it would be parallel or equal to honoring life itself.

  Eve Ensler

  Mother, Giving, Honor

• Political change and academic change and intellectual change are obviously crucial, but they don't necessarily change society. They can change a particular class and give everybody in that class great arguments, but that doesn't necessarily translate into the body of the culture.

  Eve Ensler

  Class, Giving, Political

  Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• What we all have to know is the struggle is long. It's long. It may not end in our lifetimes. But the struggle is what gives our lives meaning and purpose. I tell people to take time out of activism every day to take care of their bodies, to take care of their souls and spirits.

  Eve Ensler

  Struggle, Long, People

  Source: www.elle.com

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