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
love people
I try not to think about what people think of me. You can't, because then you get hung up in all the people who love you, and you've also got all the people who hate you, because of what you're doing.
love-is made
The love is all around us. I made a life of love.
people afraid-to-love
People are more afraid to love than they are to kill.
love agency voice
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.
fuel girls inside listen primary spend teenage time urge voice
I urge you to spend the time to listen to the voice inside of you. I see teenage girls as being the primary fuel of this planet.
along believing top
Rossellini was going along believing she was at the top of her game,
reluctant stop women
At first women were reluctant to talk. They were a little shy, but once they got going, you couldn't stop them.
bodies degree hate obsess painful perform profoundly time women
Doing this show is really painful each time I perform it. The degree to which women hate their bodies is profoundly sad. Let's just put off our self-hatred for 10 years, take over the world, and then we can obsess again.
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closest to the core contaminated. They live near the reactor; their contamination is the most potent and consuming. As you get further away from the reactor, women are contaminated but not to the degree.
career nine taught time took waitress
I was a waitress for nine years, which I don't regret at all. It taught me about discipline. I was always writing; it took a long time to make a career of it.
great icons matter people system
Do I think it's great that we have a celebrity system where some people matter and some people don't? No. But do I think we'll always create icons and legends? Yeah, I probably do.
becomes begin cells invites lives looks
Cancer essentially lives in us and becomes activated at some point, and then cells begin to psychotically divide. Initially, the cancer cell looks like other cells and the body invites it in.
girls opposed others please pleasing taught whatever
Whatever culture, whatever country, girls are taught to please others as opposed to pleasing themselves.
grew work
I was born in Manhattan and grew up in Scarsdale. Scarsdale didn't work for me as a place at all.