338 Quotes by Eve Ensler

The trick has been to live in the contradictions while maintaining principles, beliefs, and purpose.

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

Saying the word I was not supposed to say is the thing that gave me a voice in the world.

I have always been obsessed with naming things. If I could name them, I could tame them. They could be my friends.

Lasting social and cultural change is spread by ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

It's a totally ridiculous, completely unsexy word. If you use it during sex, trying to be politically correct-- "Darling, could you stroke my vagina?"-- you kill the act right there. I'm worried about vaginas, what we call them and don't call them.

After all, the Indo-European word cunt was derived from the goddess Kunda or Cunti, and shares the same root as kin and country.

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.

We have to say that what happens to women matters to everyone and it matters a lot.