Eve Ensler Quotes - Page 2

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• I think when people begin to tell their stories, everything changes, because not only are you legitimized in the telling of your story and are you found, literally, like you matter, you exist in the telling of your story, but when you hear your story be told, you suddenly exist in community and with others.

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  Thinking, People, Community

  "Eve Ensler on Art and Activism". Interview with Michael Cathcart, www.abc.net.au. December 26, 2012.

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• 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.

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• Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back.

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  Far Away, Coming Back, Being Afraid

  Eve Ensler (2010). “I Am an Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls Around the World”, p.139, Villard

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• If you listen to the real in you, that part that's pulsing and has questions and is trying to figure something out, it will shape your life in a way where, when you get to be sixty, you'll succeed. You'll be happy about your life.

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  Real, Trying, Shapes

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

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• We're in a crisis. We're in a crisis like I don't think America has ever known in my lifetime. But we have to keep joy in our lives, love in our lives, poetry in our lives, dancing in our lives.

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  Love Life, Thinking, America

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Women not only get violated, but then we take on the struggle to end it too... As a man, how could the destruction of women be anything to you but devastating? Think about the fact that the women being hurt are your mothers, daughters, sisters.

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  Daughter, Mother, Hurt

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

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• I think culture is where things change in us deeply. But right now, I think that people are very traumatised. They are very scared. Having grown up in a house with a perpetrator who was violent every day and terrorising every day, I feel like that this country is suddenly very much like the house and the family I grew up in. Every day we are glued to our phones, glued to our television; "What is this psychopath going to do next? How will he embarrass us? Who will he bully or hurt or humiliate today? It's so easy to get locked into a syndrome where the perpetrator is ruling your life.

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  Country, Hurt, Thinking

  Source: www.fanpop.com

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• When you bring consciousness to anything, things begin to shift.

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  Consciousness

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• What neo-capitalism does so brilliantly is that it's always subdividing and dividing, so that people are never able to be joined in their numbers and strength in a unified way. That is exactly what we have to overcome.

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  Numbers, People, Overcoming

  Source: www.elle.com

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• The verb that's been enforced on girls is to please. Girls are trained to please...I want us all to change the verb. I want the verb to be educate, or activate, or engage, or confront, or defy, or create.

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  Girl, Verbs, Want

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• I think many of us get separated from the mothership - our body - early on. I think the mothership is also the Earth, and life itself. Trauma separates us from that and dissociates us from our hearts.

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  Heart, Thinking, Body

  Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2013.

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• 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.

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  Successful, Thinking, People

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

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

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  Order, Broken, Giving

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• When I was younger I was much more polemical and didactic, much less trusting. Inherently my own vision of the world would weave its way through the characters. Also, my concerns are changing. What happens is you write a few plays and get boxed into some idea of what your concerns are and what you're supposed to be writing about.

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  Writing, Character, Play

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

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• 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.

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  Reality, Thinking, Class

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

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• I was a young feminist in the '70s. Feminism saved my life. It gave me a life. But I saw how so much of what people were saying was not matching up with what they were doing. For example, we were talking about sister solidarity, and women were putting each other down. We were talking about standing up for our rights, and women weren't leaving abusive relationships with men. There were just so many disconnects.

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  Men, Rights, Talking

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

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• 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.

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  Passion, Writing, Voice

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

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• 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.

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  Talking, Knowing, Identity

  Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2013.

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• I am not saying people shouldn't be held accountable for terrible acts. But holding people in prisons does not necessarily make them responsible or accountable. It makes them bad. It makes them evil. It puts an end to any process of transformation. It hardens them spiritually and psychologically.

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  People, Evil, Doe

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• It seems to me there's this tyranny that's not accidental or incidental, to make women feel compelled to look like somebody they're not. I think the effort is being made to get us to turn our time and attention to this instead of important political issues.

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  Thinking, Issues, Empowering

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• 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.

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  Motivation, Inspiration, People

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• 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.

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  Tired, Honor, Victory

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

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• 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.

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  Hurt, Thinking, Matter

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

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• There is just so much excess in terms of the market for self-remodeling. I think most women are perfectly gorgeous and beautiful the way they are.

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  Beautiful, Thinking, Self

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• It seems to me that we spend an inordinate amount of time and attention on fixing ourselves when we could really be directing that out to serving others.

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  Attention, Fixing, Serving Others

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