“Food is love, for my body, wellbeing, and the animals that go unheard every day.” Quote by Margaret Chapman
“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.” ThinkingFeltPullingWorthlessRecovering Author:Eve Ensler
“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.” PeopleFeelsTogetherEnergySocialFeltStruggleMovementPossibilityBuildingConnectedWorking TogetherIsolatedWorthlessDisconnectedSocial Movements Author:Eve Ensler
“We can't walk where we want to walk or be who we want to be or dress the way we want to dress or go anywhere any time of day. I am talking about the freedom that comes with just knowing that you're okay, and that you have value and you have identity, and you don't have to keep proving yourself.” WayWantValuesWalksTalkingKnowingIdentityProveOkayDressesTime Of DayProving Yourself Author:Eve Ensler
“Freedom, that's the kind of power I'm interested in. When we help each other get free, then it's not about anybody being on top or anybody being on the bottom. It's about being together, in a community.” KindHelpingTogetherCommunityBottomHelping Each OtherBeing Together Author:Eve Ensler
“If you look at capitalism and patriarchy, they're both such hierarchical, competitive, oneupmanship systems. They've trained us all [to think] that power means having all the goods or having the most money or having the most attention or having the most fame. That's not the power that interests me. Actually, the deconstruction of that power is what interests me.” IfsThinkingLooksMeanInterestAttentionFameCapitalismGoodsPatriarchyDeconstruction Author:Eve Ensler
“I think that it was really rock-and-roll stars, women who were breaking boundaries with their bodies and their voices and their beings and their music. I spent a lot of time at concerts,just watching women rock out. They expressed so much of what I believed could be possible.” ThinkingBodyStarsVoiceRocksBoundariesConcertsRock And Roll Author:Eve Ensler
“I literally would go to see Tina Turner any opportunity I had because being in the presence of Tina Turner was like being in the presence of transformative energy, and feminist transformative energy. I remember thinking to myself, whatever this is, it's revolution. Whatever this is, it's change embodied in a woman.” ThinkingRememberOpportunityEnergyRevolutionFeministTurner Author:Eve Ensler
“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.” GivingBodyPoliticalCultureClassParticularIntellectualArgumentCrucialAcademicTranslatePolitical Change Author:Eve Ensler
“Rock-and-roll was an example of change in the body of the culture. I think it's really what helped bring the anti-war movement to its peak and moved people into the streets to seize the day - the movement was the embodiment of what was happening in the music. This is what taught me that it was possible to bring art and activism together. Without that piece, that energetic embodiment piece, the rest is just intellectual construct.” PeopleThinkingArtWarBodyTogetherCulturePiecesStreetsRocksExampleMovementTaughtIntellectualHappeningsMovedActivismAnti WarRock And RollConstructsEnergeticEmbodimentSeize The DayAnti War Movement Author:Eve Ensler