I began to see my body like an iPad or a car. I would drive it and demand things from it. It had no limits. It was invincible. It was to be conquered and mastered like the Earth herself. Eve Ensler More Quotes by Eve Ensler More Quotes From Eve Ensler I think we have a tendency in America to keep dividing ourselves, separating ourselves from each other. Eve Ensler dividingamericathinking stop fixing your bodies and start fixing the world! Eve Ensler empoweringbodyworld One of the things I think about when we talk about a violence,and relationship to spirituality is that it seems to me when you take something from someone that isn't yours or you hurt someone else, fundamentally, you actually do that to yourself. You actually unmake yourself, you work against your own being and your own matter. Eve Ensler hurtmatterthinking 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. Eve Ensler feel-goodpeopleneeds We have to know people who are outside of our own circle, we have to reach out to people we don't know, we have to protect people who are in tremendous danger. And we also have to not get burned out and let our fear and anxiety and depression sink us. So there's lots of things we have to do right now! Eve Ensler anxietycirclespeople Danger lurks when people are dissociated and detached from their own story or feelings. Eve Ensler storiesfeelingspeople If you look at capitalism and patriarchy, they're both such hierarchical, competitive, oneupmanship systems. They've trained us all [to think] that power means having all the goods or having the most money or having the most attention or having the most fame. That's not the power that interests me. Actually, the deconstruction of that power is what interests me. Eve Ensler meanlooksthinking If the theatre has taught me anything, it's that when things change in the body, in the body politic, in the body of the world, in the body of the earth, in the body of the person, there's change. You never go back. Eve Ensler theatrebodyworld I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense. Eve Ensler differencestakenyears Women not only get violated, but then we take on the struggle to end it too... As a man, how could the destruction of women be anything to you but devastating? Think about the fact that the women being hurt are your mothers, daughters, sisters. Eve Ensler daughterhurtmother What I feel now is connected to people. I feel connected and I feel a lot of love for people. I feel the possibility of what building social movements and what working together in struggle creates. Whatever that energy is, it feels a lot better than what I felt when I was younger - which was worthless and disconnected and isolated and alone. Eve Ensler working-togetherstrugglepeople I think what's been true across the board is the universal patriarchy, the fear of women ever being born back into complete sexuality and life-force. This manifests itself in different cultural variances, but that's really what's going on everywhere. Eve Ensler boardsdifferentthinking The clitoris is pure in purpose. It is the only organ in the body designed purely for pleasure. Eve Ensler pleasurebodypurpose We have to bridge and join our struggles and understand how we can't fight violence against women without looking at racism, we can't fight violence against women without looking at economic deprivation or climate change. All these struggles are interconnected. Eve Ensler fightingbridgesstruggle 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. Eve Ensler hungerabsencejoy Dance is holy, sexual, and it's a way of being very powerful and a little dangerous without being violent. Eve Ensler powerfullittlesway 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. Eve Ensler motivationinspirationpeople We're always learning. We're all in the process of decolonizing ourselves - removing all the parts of us that are sexist, homophobic, transphobic, racist. I mean, everybody in society needs to be in this process because everybody's been brought up in a misogynist, racist, homophobic, transphobic culture. Eve Ensler meancultureneeds Well, the tyranny of masculinity and the tyranny of patriarchy I think has been much more deadly to men than it has to women. It hasn’t killed our hearts. It’s killed men’s hearts. It’s silenced them, it’s cut them off. Eve Ensler cuttingheartmen In the United States, the last recorded clitoridectomy for curing masturbation was performed in 1948--on a five year old girl. Eve Ensler united-statesgirlyears
