Eve Ensler Quotes About Surgery

Quotes about: Surgery

• I got to a nine-hour surgery, I lost lots of body parts and rearranged, I got really months of infection that I lost 30 pounds. But the idea of pumping poison into my bloodstream just - I couldn't, I couldn't.

  Eve Ensler

  Ideas, Poison, Body

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

• I came out of the nine-hour surgery and I had tubes in every direction, and those nurses at the Mayo Clinic, I could cry for four days at the kindness of those nurses. The care, the detail of the care, the attention that just never wavered, never complained. The love.

  Eve Ensler

  Kindness, Nurse, Nine

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

• Look, you do everything in stages, right? I don't think everything happens at once. There are so many layers we are constantly chipping away at, down and down and down, closer and closer to what would be the body. I think what happened with cancer, was that I woke up out of nine hours of surgery and I was body. I was just body.

  Eve Ensler

  Cancer, Thinking, Would Be

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

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