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 More Quotes by Eve Ensler More Quotes From Eve Ensler Today the United States has the highest prison population in the world, over 2.1 million people. ... We lock people up at a rate that is seven to ten times that of any other democracy. Eve Ensler prison-population democracy people Money doesn't make you special, it makes you lucky. Be generous, be crazy, be outrageous. Eve Ensler weekend crazy special Stop trying to fix your body. It was never broken. Eve Ensler body broken trying It [the memoir "In The Body of the World"] wrote me. I joke about it, but this book was so unusual. It just started to come out. I really feel like it came straight from my body. I think it was both an expression of what I had gone through, but also it just felt like everything had come together in my body and it needed to tell that story. Eve Ensler expression book thinking Decide whether you want to be liked or admired. Eve Ensler want We must stop being polite and behaved and find new inventive tactics to shift the paradigm. We are the majority. Eve Ensler polite tactics majority Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars. Eve Ensler solitude stars sleep The only point of having power it seems to me is to empower others. The only point of leadership is to inspire. Eve Ensler empowering seems inspire I think violence against women in America has become ordinary - it's been made absolutely acceptable. Eve Ensler ordinary america thinking I really want to help stop violence toward women. Eve Ensler violence want helping Do you say that tree isn't pretty cause it doesn't look like that tree? We're all trees. You're a tree. I'm a tree. You've got to love your body, Eve. You've got to love your tree. Love your tree. (Leah) Eve Ensler body tree looks For me, so much of my life has been this attempt to find my way back into my body. I tried various forms, from promiscuity, to eating disorders, to performance art. And I think it wasn't until I got cancer, where I was suddenly being pricked and ported and chemoed and operated on, that I suddenly just became body. I was just a body. And it was in that, in that finally landing in myself that I really discovered the world in my body. Eve Ensler cancer art thinking Security isn't what I hunger for. I hunger for change. I hunger for connection. Eve Ensler hunger security connections I think all my work's been about how do women get back into our bodies; how do men get back. We're all disassociated. Eve Ensler body men thinking I'm a nomad. I have a place in New York in the Flatiron District, and I have a place in Paris in Ile Saint-Louis, and I spend a lot of time in Congo. Eve Ensler paris saint new-york Cancer was the most terrifying, arduous, painful thing, but it was also a profound gift in the sense that I was holding so much in my body for so many years that was dark and terrifying which was preventing my coming back into myself. Eve Ensler cancer dark years Theater has an incredible capacity to move people to social change, to address issues, to inspire social revolution. Eve Ensler issues people moving I want to touch you in real time not find you on YouTube, I want to walk next to you in the mountains not friend you on Facebook. Eve Ensler mountain real want I would rate the fact that I get to be alive a big beautiful 10. Satisfaction with myself - work in progress. Eve Ensler progress alive beautiful What I would argue is that real spirituality is the ability to keep encountering two opposite thoughts at the same time and still maintain some kind of morality and perspective in the world. It is not the elimination of one side of the equation or the elimination of what you don't like; it is the investigation of everything. Eve Ensler real opposites two
