Decide whether you want to be liked or admired. Eve Ensler More Quotes by Eve Ensler More Quotes From Eve Ensler When I was younger I was much more polemical and didactic, much less trusting. Inherently my own vision of the world would weave its way through the characters. Also, my concerns are changing. What happens is you write a few plays and get boxed into some idea of what your concerns are and what you're supposed to be writing about. Eve Ensler playwritingcharacter I think for me, happiness is crucial, but I think we think that happiness comes from amassing goods and getting things and being loved and being successful, when in fact my experience of happiness comes when you give everything away, when you serve people, when you're watching something you do make somebody happy, that's when happiness happens. Eve Ensler successfulpeoplethinking We can't walk where we want to walk or be who we want to be or dress the way we want to dress or go anywhere any time of day. I am talking about the freedom that comes with just knowing that you're okay, and that you have value and you have identity, and you don't have to keep proving yourself. Eve Ensler knowingidentitytalking It seems to me there's this tyranny that's not accidental or incidental, to make women feel compelled to look like somebody they're not. I think the effort is being made to get us to turn our time and attention to this instead of important political issues. Eve Ensler empoweringissuesthinking I don't get tired, because every time a woman doesn't die or doesn't get beaten or doesn't get raped or doesn't get honor-killed or doesn't get acid-burned, it's a huge victory. Eve Ensler victorytiredhonor You have to give to the world the thing that you want the most, in order to fix the broken parts inside you. Eve Ensler brokengivingorder I was a young feminist in the '70s. Feminism saved my life. It gave me a life. But I saw how so much of what people were saying was not matching up with what they were doing. For example, we were talking about sister solidarity, and women were putting each other down. We were talking about standing up for our rights, and women weren't leaving abusive relationships with men. There were just so many disconnects. Eve Ensler rightstalkingmen We have not yet made violence against women abnormal, extraordinary, unacceptable. We have not yet come to see it as a pathological issue. Eve Ensler abnormalissuesviolence I think we have to get bolder. Why after Fukushima didn't we all go out and shut down all the nuclear power plants and stay there until it happened? Eve Ensler fukushimanuclearthinking The verb that's been enforced on girls is to please. Girls are trained to please...I want us all to change the verb. I want the verb to be educate, or activate, or engage, or confront, or defy, or create. Eve Ensler verbsgirlwant There is just so much excess in terms of the market for self-remodeling. I think most women are perfectly gorgeous and beautiful the way they are. Eve Ensler selfbeautifulthinking …find freedom, aliveness, and power not from what contains, locates, or protects us, but from what dissolves, reveals, and expands us. Eve Ensler protect I think the human species is very suicidal. Eve Ensler suicidalhumansthinking When you bring consciousness to anything, things begin to shift. Eve Ensler consciousness 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. Eve Ensler serving-othersfixingattention 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. Eve Ensler politicalcareersbelieve Our bodies are critical. If I learned anything from getting really bad cancer seven years ago, it's that your body is what you've got. If you don't take care of it, you're not going to be here. Eve Ensler cancerbodyyears Looking at it, I started crying. Maybe it was knowing that I had to give up the fantasy, the enormous life consuming fantasy , that someone or something was going to do this for me – the fantasy that someone was coming to lead my life, to choose direction, to give me orgasms. Eve Ensler fantasygiving-upknowing I think being an activist and an artist is an interesting contradiction, because so often they are at odds with one another. When you write as an artist you have to clean the palate of your own politics in creating characters and activism is kind of the exact opposite. Eve Ensler writingcharacterthinking Unless men are active allies, we'll never end violence against women and girls. Eve Ensler alliesgirlmen
