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Eve Ensler Biography

Eve Ensler (/ˈɛnzlər/; born May 25, 1953) is an American playwright, performer, feminist, and activist, best known for her play The Vagina Monologues. In 2006 Charles Isherwood of the New York Times called The Vagina Monologues "probably the most important piece of political theater of the last decade."

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I live with that contradiction daily. It is a constant struggle. I struggle very deeply. I don't think I've said this to anyone, but I've wondered if I just want to give up this world and live in the Congo and just be there. But I don't think that's what they need from me

Congo, Contradiction, Daily, Giving Up, Struggle, Thinking

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.

Feel Good, Needs, People, Pretending, Times

I feel sometimes with boys that the tyranny of patriarchy has had a much more devastating blow on boys than it has on anyone. Because they have literally been forced to disassociate from their hearts.

Blow, Boys, Devastating, Heart, Literally, Patriarchy

Look, you do everything in stages, right? I don't think everything happens at once. There are so many layers we are constantly chipping away at, down and down and down, closer and closer to what would be the body. I think what happened with cancer, was that I woke up out of nine hours of surgery and I was body. I was just body.

Cancer, Happens, Layers, Think, Thinking, Would Be

Trauma dissociates us from the parts of our body that are wounded, so we have to leave our whole body. It's a journey you take your whole life, that coming back in, re-landing in your body, in your self, on the Earth. I think one of the reasons it's been so easy, in a way, for us to violate both women and the Earth is this profound dissociation that exists in everyone.

Body, Dissociation, Journey, Self, Thinking, Violate

I think we are seeing the absolute and utter collapse of male politicians in this [U. S] country and we're seeing what the underpinnings of the power structure are, which are sexist underpinnings.

Country, Males, Politicians, Sexist, Structure, Thinking

People didn't feel so much shame around it and that they didn't feel so much humiliation around it. And the other thing that people have given me a lot of feedback about - something I'm very excited about - is all the stuff around chemo as an "empathetic warrior. "

Chemo, Feedback, People, Stuff, Warrior

The clitoris is pure in purpose. It is the only organ in the body designed purely for pleasure.

Body, Designed, Pleasure, Pure, Purely, Purpose

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.

Change, Inspiration, Motivation, Nothing, People, Sick

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.

Feels, People, Struggle, Together, Working, Younger

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.

Cruelty, Home, Kind, Patterns, Security, 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.

Ile, New York, Paris, Place, Saint, Time

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.

Beautiful, Market, Self, Think, Thinking, Women

When you listen to other women’s stories, you begin to understand your own better, and you begin to find ways back through and with each other.

Begin, Listen, Stories, Understand, Way, Womens

I think to be cut off from your heart is the greatest tyranny in the world.

Cutting, Greatest, Heart, Thinking, Tyranny

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.

Passion, People, Resistance, Voice, Writing

. . . 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.

Consequence, Dark, Loneliness, Pain

What I have found is that even when you try to transform existing structures they are so powerful they often overwhelm, seduce, and control you.

Existing, Found, Powerful, Structure, Structures, Trying

I think we just have to look at all the ways in which we are violating the Earth, each other, economic violence, racial violence, environmental violence - where we are dominating and not cooperating.

Dominating, Earth, Environmental, Looks, Thinking, Ways

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.

Figure, Pulsing, Real, Shape, Shapes, Trying

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