Eve Ensler
Eve Ensler
Eve Ensleris an American playwright, performer, feminist, and activist, best known for her play The Vagina Monologues. Charles Isherwood of the New York Times has called The Vagina Monologues "probably the most important piece of political theater of the last decade."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth25 May 1953
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
struggle whole-life my-way
I have been struggling to find my way back into my body my whole life.
body world ifs
If you are divided from your body, then you are divided from the body of the world.
people feel-good needs
People are sad. People are broke. People are worried about money, people are worried that they're not enough and not amounting to anything and they don't feel good about themselves. People have rough times, and everybody's pretending it's not true, and we need to break that veneer.
evil people doe
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.
motivation inspiration sick
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.
numbers house one-day
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.
empowering world body
stop fixing your bodies and start fixing the world!
consciousness
When you bring consciousness to anything, things begin to shift.
opportunity thinking feminist
I literally would go to see Tina Turner any opportunity I had because being in the presence of Tina Turner was like being in the presence of transformative energy, and feminist transformative energy. I remember thinking to myself, whatever this is, it's revolution. Whatever this is, it's change embodied in a woman.
fixing attention serving-others
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,
hard-work thinking voice
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.
community together helping
Freedom, that's the kind of power I'm interested in. When we help each other get free, then it's not about anybody being on top or anybody being on the bottom. It's about being together, in a community.
believe careers political
Naming things, breaking through taboos and denial is the most dangerous, terrifying, and crucial work. This has to happen in spite of political climates or coercions, in spite of careers being won or lost, in spite of the fear of being criticized, outcast, or disliked. I believe freedom begins with naming things. Humanity is preserved by it.
energy essentials beats
When you rape, beat, maim, mutilate, burn, bury, and terrorize women, you destroy the essential life energy on the planet.