Eve Ensler Quotes

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Once you are diagnosed with cancer, time changes. It both speeds up insanely and stops altogether.

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Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars.

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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?

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

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Today the United States has the highest prison population in the world, over 2.1 million people.... We lock people up at a rate that is seven to ten times that of any other democracy.

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The world has done that already - possessed the Congo and pillaged her and dominated her and robbed her of agency and occupation. Love is something else, something rising and contagious and surprising. It isn't aware of itself. It isn't keeping track. It isn't something you sign for. It's endless and generous and enveloping. It's in the drums, in the voices, in the bodies of the wounded made suddenly whole, by the music, by each other, dancing.

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You will touch this joy and you will suddenly know it is what you were looking for your whole life, but you were afraid to even acknowledge the absence because the hunger for it was so encompassing.

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Maybe being good isn't about getting rid of anything. Maybe being good has to do with living in the mess in the frailty in the failures in the flaws. Maybe what I tried to get rid of is the goodest part of me. Think Passion. Think Age. Think Round. Maybe good is about developing the capacity to live fully inside everything. Our body is our country, the only city, the only village, the only every we will ever know.

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In the United States, the last recorded clitoridectomy for curing masturbation was performed in 1948—on a five year old girl.

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Be transparent as wind, be as possible and relentless and dangerous, be what moves things forward without needing to leave a mark, be part of this collection of molecules that begins somewhere unknown and can't help but keep rising. Rising.Rising. Rising.

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I want to read so I can read the Koran read the signs in the street know the number of the bus I'm supposed to take when I one day leave this house.

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I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense. (xxvi)

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To speak of them out loud, to speak of their hunger and pain and loneliness and humour, to make them visible so that can not be ravaged in the dark without great consequence.

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In order for the human race to continue, women must be safe and empowered. It's an obvious idea, but like a vagina, it needs great attention and love in order to be revealed.

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The clitoris is pure in purpose. It is the only organ in the body designed purely for pleasure.

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I want to touch you in real time not find you on YouTube, I want to walk next to you in the mountains not friend you on Facebook.

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

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Find freedom, aliveness, and power not from what contains, locates, or protects us, but from what dissolves, reveals, and expands us.

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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.

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Danger lurks when people are dissociated and detached from their own story or feelings.

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When you rape, beat, maim, mutilate, burn, bury, and terrorize women, you destroy the essential life energy on the planet.

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It is almost a guarantee that in the pursuit of security you will become more insecure. Inherent in the quest for security is its undoing.

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Do you say that tree isn't pretty cause it doesn't look like that tree? We're all trees. You're a tree. I'm a tree. You've got to love your body, Eve. You've got to love your tree. Love your tree. (Leah)

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