I feel passionate about nurses. I would do anything for nurses. Anything. Eve Ensler More Quotes by Eve Ensler More Quotes From Eve Ensler Geography does not define you - love does. Eve Ensler geography-teachersgeographydoe It is almost a guarantee that in the pursuit of security you will become more insecure. Inherent in the quest for security is its undoing. Eve Ensler guarantees-thatinsecurequests 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. Eve Ensler cancerlike-youkind We live in a racist world. Everywhere there is racism. We say to White people, "You really have to examine how you behave in the world. You are responsible for deconstructing internalized racism and being part of a ongoing process of decolonizing yourself. Eve Ensler racismwhitepeople Once you are diagnosed with cancer, time changes. It both speeds up insanely and stops altogether. Eve Ensler cancerillnessspeed 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 technologymotivationinspiration People are more afraid to love than they are to kill. Eve Ensler afraid-to-lovepeople Why don't we bring everyone up to be caring and compassionate, to believe that we are connected with everyone and everything around us? Eve Ensler compassionatecaringbelieve I bet you're worried. I was worried. I was worried about vaginas. I was worried about what we think about vaginas, and even more worried that we don't think about them. Eve Ensler worriedthinking I think the greatest illusion we have is that denial protects us. It's actually the biggest distortion and lie. In fact, staying asleep is what's killing us. Eve Ensler deniallyingthinking I'm in good shape. My cancer means I have lost a lot of organs and I'm a lot lighter. I have devoted myself to yoga and I'm doing handstands. Eve Ensler canceryogamean I think one of the problems with the capitalist mainstream is this: no matter what you create to respond or resist it they will buy it. Eve Ensler problemmatterthinking Maybe being good isn't about getting rid of anything. Maybe being good has to do with living in the mess in the frailty in the failures in the flaws. Maybe what I tried to get rid of is the goodest part of me. Think Passion. Think Age. Think Round. Maybe good is about developing the capacity to live fully inside everything. Our body is our country, the only city, the only village, the only every we will ever know. Eve Ensler passioncountrythinking ...to speak of them out loud, to speak of their hunger and pain and loneliness and humour, to make them visible so that can not be ravaged in the dark without great consequence. Eve Ensler painlonelinessdark I think of the security of cages. How violence, cruelty, oppression, become a kind of home, a familiar pattern, a cage, in which we know how to operate and define ourselves. Eve Ensler patternshomethinking There's an underlying puritanicalness in America that is not that different to the prudishness of Britain - it just manifests itself in different ways. Eve Ensler differentamericaway I think about Marvin Gaye and 'Sexual Healing.' What a radical idea that sex was healing. I learned my politics through that music. Eve Ensler healingsexthinking When I wrote 'The Good Body,' I turned 40 and suddenly had this stomach. It seemed like the end of the world. Because I didn't value my body. I was constantly judging it, but I also didn't live in it. Eve Ensler end-of-the-worldbodyjudging Dance has a transformative effect on bodily trauma. Eve Ensler traumaeffects I think the thing that has always made me happy is being in the struggle, in a community of struggle with other people. Eve Ensler strugglepeoplethinking
