338 Quotes by Eve Ensler

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    When you destroy a population, once femicide happens, we're going to see the end of humanity, because I don't know how you sustain a future without vitalised women.

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

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    Money doesn't make you special, it makes you lucky. Be generous, be crazy, be outrageous.

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    I was born in Manhattan and grew up in Scarsdale. Scarsdale didn't work for me as a place at all.

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    Women are the primary resource of the planet. They give birth, we come from them. They are mothers, they are visionaries, they are the future. If we can figure out how to make women feel safe and honor women, it would be parallel or equal to honoring life itself.

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    The minute someone tells you you have cancer, it's kind of like you die. You really do die. It's like you get that you're mortal.

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    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.

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    Whatever culture, whatever country, girls are taught to please others as opposed to pleasing themselves.

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