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
thinking environmental looks
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 .
country thinking males
I think we are seeing the absolute and utter collapse of male politicians in this [U.S] country and we're seeing what the underpinnings of the power structure are, which are sexist underpinnings.
thinking america violence
I think violence against women in America has become ordinary - it's been made absolutely acceptable.
new-york paris saint
I'm a nomad. I have a place in New York in the Flatiron District, and I have a place in Paris in Ile Saint-Louis, and I spend a lot of time in Congo.
wall names body
What happens when someone throws you against a wall or tells you you're a jackass or puts you down or calls you bad names? It goes into your body. We hold it in our body. If we don't have a way to let that go and release that, it becomes sickness eventually.
cancer kind like-you
The minute someone tells you you have cancer, it's kind of like you die. You really do die. It's like you get that you're mortal.
moving issues people
Theater has an incredible capacity to move people to social change, to address issues, to inspire social revolution.
joy hunger absence
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.
thinking talking different-experiences
I really do think how we frame things determines so much of our experience, and I've been talking to a lot of oncologists, like, why don't we call them transformation suites and give people transformation juice and have guides that support people when they're going through chemo so you could actually burn away what needs to be burned away, as opposed to this dread, terror, horror, which is a very different experience.
beautiful progress alive
I would rate the fact that I get to be alive a big beautiful 10. Satisfaction with myself - work in progress.
struggle thinking years
For many years now, I feel like my own body struggle has been linked and connected with women I meet in the world. I think we're in this together.
dream cancer ambition
Since cancer, I feel like I have dreams rather than ambitions, visions rather than plans.
love-is made
The love is all around us. I made a life of love.
violence want helping
I really want to help stop violence toward women.