338 Quotes by Eve Ensler

Why don’t we bring everyone up to be caring and compassionate, to believe that we are connected with everyone and everything around us?

It is where we do not live that the dying comes.

I would rate the fact that I get to be alive a big beautiful 10. Satisfaction with myself – work in progress.

If you listen to the real in you, that part that’s pulsing and has questions and is trying to figure something out, it will shape your life in a way where, when you get to be sixty, you’ll succeed. You’ll be happy about your life.

I think we have to get bolder. Why after Fukushima didn’t we all go out and shut down all the nuclear power plants and stay there until it happened?

What happens when someone throws you against a wall or tells you you’re a jackass or puts you down or calls you bad names? It goes into your body. We hold it in our body. If we don’t have a way to let that go and release that, it becomes sickness eventually.

Terence McKenna says, “The culture is not your friend.” I am not sure we can change this culture. But I think we can rise above it and create a new world. That’s why I so deeply believe in alternative spaces. That’s why I believe in the power of art and activism.

How come we have money to kill but no money to feed or heal? How come we have money to destroy but no money for art and schools? The.

I believe in irony. And if V-Day has taught me anything, it’s that if you go out with artistic, outrageous irony and humor, people are drawn to it.