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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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“I honestly never understood how violence against women became a women's issue. 95 percent of the violence men are doing to women.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“The mechanism of violence is what destroys women, controls women, diminishes women and keeps women in their so-called place.”

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“The devastation of neoliberalism is so multi-fold, whether it's violence against women or desperate economic inequality or the destruction of the planet.”

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“One of the things I think about when we talk about a violence,and relationship to spirituality is that it seems to me when you take something from someone that isn't yours or you hurt someone else, fundamentally, you actually do that to yourself. You actually unmake yourself, you work against your own being and your own matter.”

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“I think violence against women in America has become ordinary - it's been made absolutely acceptable.”

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“I really want to help stop violence toward women.”

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“Unless men are active allies, we'll never end violence against women and girls.”

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“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 .”

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“We have not yet made violence against women abnormal, extraordinary, unacceptable. We have not yet come to see it as a pathological issue.”

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“We have to bridge and join our struggles and understand how we can't fight violence against women without looking at racism, we can't fight violence against women without looking at economic deprivation or climate change. All these struggles are interconnected.”

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“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.”

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

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

“My commitment originated in my own story and my own relationship to violence.”

Stories My Own Violence Commitment

Author:Eve Ensler

“Dancing insists we take up space, and though it has no set direction, we go there together. Dance is dangerous, joyous, sexual, holy, disruptive, and contagious and it breaks the rules. It can happen anywhere, at anytime, with anyone and everyone, and it's free. Dance joins us and pushes us to go further and that is why it's at the center of ONE BILLION RISING.”

About the Author

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

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The Vagina MonologuesRelated source material

Insecure at Last: Losing It in Our Security-Obsessed WorldRelated source material

I Am an Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls Around the WorldRelated source material

In the Body of the World: A Memoir of Cancer and ConnectionRelated source material

The Vagina Monologues: The V-Day EditionRelated source material

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My Name is Jody Williams: A Vermont Girl's Winding Path to the Nobel Peace PrizeRelated source material

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