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
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The devastation of neoliberalism is so multi-fold, whether it's violence against women or desperate economic inequality or the destruction of the planet.
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I think violence against women in America has become ordinary - it's been made absolutely acceptable.
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I really want to help stop violence toward women.
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The mechanism of violence is what destroys women, controls women, diminishes women and keeps women in their so-called place.
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My commitment originated in my own story and my own relationship to violence.
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Unless men are active allies, we'll never end violence against women and girls.
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We have not yet made violence against women abnormal, extraordinary, unacceptable. We have not yet come to see it as a pathological issue.
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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.
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Rossellini was going along believing she was at the top of her game,
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We focus on fixing our bodies. We spend $40 billion a year on beauty products. What if we actually took that money, took that time, took that energy and started fixing the world. Women would actually be in power,
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We are focusing on bringing the stories of these women to the world. These stories must be told if we are going to stop this from happening again.
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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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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.
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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.