Eve Ensler Quotes About Violence

Quotes about: Violence

• Dancing insists we take up space, and though it has no set direction, we go there together. Dance is dangerous, joyous, sexual, holy, disruptive, and contagious and it breaks the rules. It can happen anywhere, at anytime, with anyone and everyone, and it's free. Dance joins us and pushes us to go further and that is why it's at the center of ONE BILLION RISING.

  Eve Ensler

  Dance, Moving Forward, Space

• One of the things I think about when we talk about a violence,and relationship to spirituality is that it seems to me when you take something from someone that isn't yours or you hurt someone else, fundamentally, you actually do that to yourself. You actually unmake yourself, you work against your own being and your own matter.

  Eve Ensler

  Hurt, Thinking, Matter

  "Interview with Eve Ensler". Interview with Carolyn Roark, www.ecumenicajournal.org. February 16, 2016.

• Unless men are active allies, we'll never end violence against women and girls.

  Eve Ensler

  Girl, Men, Allies

  "The Saturday interview: Vagina Monologues author Eve Ensler". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2011.

• I think so much of my early life, even though I grew up White and middle class, I was completely shattered by the horrifically violent atmosphere I grew up in. I am a consequence of violence. That opened a door to many realities that I would not have experienced had I not survived what I did.

  Eve Ensler

  Reality, Thinking, Class

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

• My commitment originated in my own story and my own relationship to violence.

  Eve Ensler

  Commitment, Stories, Violence

• I think of the security of cages. How violence, cruelty, oppression, become a kind of home, a familiar pattern, a cage, in which we know how to operate and define ourselves.

  Eve Ensler

  Home, Thinking, Patterns

  Eve Ensler (2006). “Insecure at Last: Losing It in Our Security-Obsessed World”, p.137, Villard

• Why don't we teach sex the way we teach math or history? It is such a deeply crucial and healing part of life and we offer no road map. I think it is core to ending violence.

  Eve Ensler

  Sex, Healing, Math

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

• I think we just have to look at all the ways in which we are violating the Earth, each other, economic violence, racial violence, environmental violence - where we are dominating and not cooperating .

  Eve Ensler

  Thinking, Environmental, Looks

  "Exclusive Interview With Eve Ensler, Recipient of the 2011 Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2011.

• I think there are so many children being brought up in some form of violence, be it violence of poverty or sexism or racism or homophobia or transphobia. That violence takes a life to transform or overcome. I don't think people should be spending their lives dealing with that. I think people should be thriving, playing, creating, evolving.

  Eve Ensler

  Children, Thinking, Creating

  Source: bknation.org

• We have not yet made violence against women abnormal, extraordinary, unacceptable. We have not yet come to see it as a pathological issue.

  Eve Ensler

  Issues, Abnormal, Violence

• The mechanism of violence is what destroys women, controls women, diminishes women and keeps women in their so-called place.

  Eve Ensler

  Women, Violence, Diminish

• We have to bridge and join our struggles and understand how we can't fight violence against women without looking at racism, we can't fight violence against women without looking at economic deprivation or climate change. All these struggles are interconnected.

  Eve Ensler

  Struggle, Fighting, Bridges

  Source: www.elle.com

• The devastation of neoliberalism is so multi-fold, whether it's violence against women or desperate economic inequality or the destruction of the planet.

  Eve Ensler

  Economic Inequality, Neoliberalism, Devastation

  "Avocados and Vaginas". Interview with Joe Saxon, www.thestateofthearts.co.uk. May 16, 2015.

• I think violence against women in America has become ordinary - it's been made absolutely acceptable.

  Eve Ensler

  Thinking, America, Ordinary

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

• I honestly never understood how violence against women became a women's issue. 95 percent of the violence men are doing to women.

  Eve Ensler

  Men, Issues, Violence

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

• I really want to help stop violence toward women.

  Eve Ensler

  Want, Violence, Helping

  "Down the vagina trail". Interview with Pamela Grossman, www.salon.com. April 19, 2000.

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