338 Quotes by Eve Ensler

I think what’s been true across the board is the universal patriarchy, the fear of women ever being born back into complete sexuality and life-force. This manifests itself in different cultural variances, but that’s really what’s going on everywhere.

What is a man cast out of the kingdom of men?

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 .

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

If the theatre has taught me anything, it’s that when things change in the body, in the body politic, in the body of the world, in the body of the earth, in the body of the person, there’s change. You never go back.

I think what all of us have in common is that we’ve been taught and trained and programmed to focus on fixing and mutilating ourselves. That’s a core reason why women do not have power in the world.

Some days I would get so exhausted, nauseous, in pain – just from going back through things. It’s almost as if I had the experience and then the meta-experience.

Denial is really death. People think that when you’re connected with other people it’s more painful. The opposite is true. When you’re connected to the river you have despair, but you also have joy, and there’s a flow in the river.

I am so grateful to be alive. It’s ridiculous to be alive.