338 Quotes by Eve Ensler

That we find freedom, aliveness and power not from what contains, locates, or protects us but from what dissolves, reveals and expands us.

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

Security isn’t what I hunger for. I hunger for change. I hunger for connection.

Anorexia was my attempt to have control over my body and manipulate my body and starve my body and shape my body. It was not a very good relationship. It was the sort of relationship my father had to my body. It was a tyrannical, “you’ll do what I tell you” relationship.

I think we have made progress. There’s no doubt about it, we have moved forward. But there’s some essential, core thing that has not been deconstructed. And I’m telling you, it’s connected to the body. I know it is.

People ask me all the time how I survived. It wasn’t that I was smarter or even stronger than anyone else. I didn’t even know what I was doing. It was just that something inside me couldn’t go along.

Between the combination of Judeo-Christian religious ‘be good be good be good’ and Capitalist ‘something’s wrong with you, buy this’ and the parental upbringing, which is ‘you’re wrong, you’re not thin enough, you’re not smart enough’ I mean, hello! We don’t have a shot.

Wouldn’t it be incredible if everyone could find the joy that comes with committing to our own goodness? Perhaps we would stop dividing ourselves into malignancies of various forms.” SCAN.

We live in a racist world. Everywhere there is racism. We say to White people, “You really have to examine how you behave in the world. You are responsible for deconstructing internalized racism and being part of a ongoing process of decolonizing yourself.”