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 More Quotes by Eve Ensler More Quotes From Eve Ensler The fact that women have been moving forward, that a woman was running for president, that we had a black president - I think there was, without a doubt, a whitelash and a complete backlash against the liberation of women, against the power of people of color. Eve Ensler running moving thinking I think when people begin to tell their stories, everything changes, because not only are you legitimized in the telling of your story and are you found, literally, like you matter, you exist in the telling of your story, but when you hear your story be told, you suddenly exist in community and with others. Eve Ensler community people thinking I think there are so many children being brought up in some form of violence, be it violence of poverty or sexism or racism or homophobia or transphobia. That violence takes a life to transform or overcome. I don't think people should be spending their lives dealing with that. I think people should be thriving, playing, creating, evolving. Eve Ensler creating children thinking I'm feeling a kind of liberty to write about what's interesting to me without worrying about what I should be writing about. And that feels good. Eve Ensler worry writing interesting In America, we have to really be working on two fronts right now. Immediately, we have to be rising in resistance and protecting our Muslim brothers and sisters [and] every marginalized person under threat and siege. At the same time, we have to be planning and envisioning where we're going. How we build moments and movements, how we come up with the vision we want of a progressive left - that's what comes in after. Eve Ensler brother two america Writing and giving voice to what I am feeling makes me happy. And supporting people in finding their voice, passion, outrage and resistance. There is nothing better than that. Eve Ensler passion voice writing I am not saying people shouldn't be held accountable for terrible acts. But holding people in prisons does not necessarily make them responsible or accountable. It makes them bad. It makes them evil. It puts an end to any process of transformation. It hardens them spiritually and psychologically. Eve Ensler evil doe people What happened with cancer was that I just became a body. There was nothing else but body for a month. I was chemo'd and operated on and cut and poked. At first it was really horrifying and scary, and then it was just,Wow. You're in your body. This is body! Eve Ensler cancer cutting scary In America, we have a government that is now run by white nationalists, by billionaires, by incredible misogynists. Eve Ensler government white running Why don't we teach sex the way we teach math or history? It is such a deeply crucial and healing part of life and we offer no road map. I think it is core to ending violence. Eve Ensler healing math sex Political change and academic change and intellectual change are obviously crucial, but they don't necessarily change society. They can change a particular class and give everybody in that class great arguments, but that doesn't necessarily translate into the body of the culture. Eve Ensler political class giving When I was younger I felt very disempowered, very disappeared. I felt worthless, like I had no right to exist. I think a good part of my life was spent recovering from that. Pulling myself out of that. Eve Ensler recovering felt thinking If you listen to the real in you, that part that's pulsing and has questions and is trying to figure something out, it will shape your life in a way where, when you get to be sixty, you'll succeed. You'll be happy about your life. Eve Ensler shapes real trying I honestly never understood how violence against women became a women's issue. 95 percent of the violence men are doing to women. Eve Ensler issues violence men I want to read so I can read the Koran read the signs in the street know the number of the bus I'm supposed to take when I one day leave this house. Eve Ensler one-day house numbers I think so much of my early life, even though I grew up White and middle class, I was completely shattered by the horrifically violent atmosphere I grew up in. I am a consequence of violence. That opened a door to many realities that I would not have experienced had I not survived what I did. Eve Ensler class reality thinking The cancer in me became an awareness of the cancer that is everywhere. The cancer of cruelty, the cancer of carelessness, the cancer of greed. Eve Ensler cancer greed awareness I have been struggling to find my way back into my body my whole life. Eve Ensler body struggle way To have insurance and have a diagnosis and to have doctors, I just felt it would be immoral on some level to complain. Eve Ensler doctors would-be complaining Everything you deny is actually killing you on some level. You see something, you feel something wrong with your body, you pretend it's not happening, it goes on, it grows, it gets worse. Eve Ensler levels body goes-on
