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Eve Ensler is an American playwright, best known for her work 'The Vagina Monologues', which is based on her investigation into the issue of violence against women and has sparked a global movement for women's empowerment. Her works often focus on women's experiences and social justice issues.

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Famous Eve Ensler Quotes

“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.”

Knows Whole Joy Hunger Absence Whole Life Acknowledge

Book:In the Body of the World: A Memoir of Cancer and Connection

Source: In the Body of the World: A Memoir of Cancer and Connection

“I think the world is always improving and always not improving. I think that both are simultaneously happening all the time. I don't think it's one motion unfortunately - I wish we could say it's better, better, better - but I think it's better, bad, better, bad - you know?”

Thinking Knows World Wish Happenings Improving Always Improving

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“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.”

Thinking Knows Country Body Age Passion Cities Capacity Rounds Be Good Our Country Mess Developing Flaws Village Frailty

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“I can only describe it as: the whole experience was imprinted on my body. And when I started to write it, it just came from such a very, In The Body of the Worldvery physical... it just came from my body. I don't know how to explain it better than that. I guess my head was transmitting it. It was a very, very physical experience writing this book.”

Knows Writing I Can Book Whole Body Know How

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“Then there was sex, which, for me, was such a need. When I was younger, I had a need to have sex with everyone. I don't know where that was coming from, but there was such a need to connect physically - obviously, for me to connect physically to myself. There were times, like I say in the book, where you lay on top of me, when you push me down, when you're inside me.”

Knows Needs Book Sex Lays

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“I think we have made progress. There's no doubt about it, we have moved forward. But there's some essential, core thing that has not been deconstructed. And I'm telling you, it's connected to the body. I know it is.”

Thinking Knows Made Body Doubt Progress Essentials Moved Connected Core No Doubt

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“It really occurred to me at a certain point: women have not been embodied. Feminism has not been embodied. It hasn't gotten into us in a way where it is so undeniable that there is nothing to prove. Do you know what I mean? That we are so in our feminist skin, so to speak, that we are that world now.”

Knows World Way Mean Certain Speak Feminism Prove Skins Feminist Do You Know

Author:Eve Ensler

“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!”

People Knows Danger Right Now Protect Anxiety Circles Reach Out Burned Burned Out

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“What we all have to know is the struggle is long. It's long. It may not end in our lifetimes. But the struggle is what gives our lives meaning and purpose. I tell people to take time out of activism every day to take care of their bodies, to take care of their souls and spirits.”

People Knows Giving May Long Soul Ends Body Care Spirit Purpose Struggle Our Lives Lifetime Take Care Activism Meaning Of Life Take Time Life Means

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“If you were around in the '60s, you already know that music and art and love are a critical part of the revolution. This is how we fight.”

Ifs Knows Art Fighting Revolution And Love Critical Art And Love

Author:Eve Ensler

“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.”

Thinking Knows Kind Home Know How Violence Security Patterns Familiar Cruelty Oppression Cages

Book:Insecure at Last: Losing It in Our Security-Obsessed World

Source: Insecure at Last: Losing It in Our Security-Obsessed World

“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.”

Knows Years Different Differences Taken Alive Okay Intense Obedience Being Different Obeying

Author:Eve Ensler

“Good is towing the line, being behaved, being quiet, being passive, fitting in, being liked, and great is being messy, having a belly, speaking your mind, standing up for what you believe in, fighting for another paradigm, not letting people talk you out of what you know to be true.”

People Knows Mind Believe Fighting Lines Quiet Standing Being True Passive Belly Messy Paradigm Fitting Being Quiet

Author:Eve Ensler

“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.”

Knows Want I Can House Numbers Streets One Day Bus Womens Rights I Can Read

Book:I Am an Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls Around the World

Source: I Am an Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls Around the World

“You know I think so many of us live outside our bodies. My dream is that people will find a way back home, into their bodies, to connect with the earth, to connect with each other, to connect with the poor, to connect with the broken, to connect with the needy, to connect with people calling out all around us, to connect with the beauty, poetry, the wildness.”

People Thinking Knows Way Home Dream Body Earth Poor Broken Calling Back Home Needy Wildness Way Back Home Beauty Poetry

Author:Eve Ensler

“Give voice to what you know to be true, and do not be afraid of being disliked or exiled. I think that's the hard work of standing up for what you see.”

Thinking Knows Giving Hard Voice Hard Work Standing Being True Strong Women

Author:Eve Ensler

“To love women, to love our vaginas, to know them and touch them and be familiar with who we are and what we need. To satisfy ourselves, to teach our lovers to satisfy us, to be present in our vaginas, to speak of them out loud, to speak of their hunger and pain and loneliness and humor, to make them visible so they cannot be ravaged in the dark without great consequence, so that our center, our point, our motor, our dream, is no longer detached, mutilated, numb, broken, invisible, or ashamed.”

Knows Needs Dream Pain Speak Women Dark Teach Loneliness Broken Lovers Consequence Hunger Invisible Familiar Loud Visible Who We Are Ashamed Our Dreams Motor Numb Detached

Book:The Vagina Monologues

Source: The Vagina Monologues

About the Author

Born: May 25, 1953
Known for: Playwright
Quotes: 234

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