Quotes from Eve Ensler

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

It became a kind of passion. Discovering the key, unlocking the vagina's mouth, unlocking this voice, this wild song.

The signs accumulated. But I did not respond. I would not wake up. We will not wake up. This terrifying sleep of denial. Is it an underlying belief that we as a human species are not worth it? Do we secretly feel we have lost our right to be here in all our selfishness and stupidity, our cruelty and greed?

I realized that the hair is there for a reason – it's the leaf around the flower, the lawn around the house. You have to love the hair in order to love the vagina. You can't pick the parts you want.

Slavery is back but never went away

Nos unimos para mostrar que estamos determinadas a criar uma nova consciência, na qual a violência será combatida até se tornar impensável. Nos unimos para imaginar e criar um novo mundo.

As pessoas pensam que, depois de ser estuprada, você é só uma vítima', diz Mukunilwa. '[...] a vida continua depois do estupro. O estupro não é o fim. Não é uma identidade imutável.

Anger is a poison you mix for your friend but drink yourself

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

You have to love hair in order to love the vagina. You can't pick the parts you want.

Do you say that tree isn't pretty cause it doesn't look like that tree? We're all trees. You're a tree. I'm a tree. You've got to love your body, Eve. You've got to live your tree. Love your tree. (Leah)

Lentamente compresi come nulla fosse più importante del porre fine alla violenza nei confronti delle donne, che in verità la dissacrazione delle donne rivelava il fallimento degli esseri umani nell'onorare e proteggere la vita

If your vagina got dressed, what would it wear?" (15-17)

I did not want to see how careless this whole system is for so many, how easy it is to fall through the cracks.

Es nepl?noju izmain?t pasauli vienas dienas laik?, bet dienu pa dienai, visu savu dz?vi, un varb?t izdosies." /Aleksa

En cada página está el poder de decir lo indecible… al igual que está en la historia entre bastidores del propio libro

Prostration: placing the body in reverence, to submit, to surrender. In many faiths it is used to relinquish the ego. In Tibetan tantric Buddhism they do one hundred thousand prostrations to overcome pride. In Islam, prostration has been known to overcome many diseases.

Dance has a transformative effect on bodily trauma.

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

The greatest illusion we have is that denial protects us. It's actually the biggest distortion and lie. In fact, staying asleep is what's killing us.

I say it because I believe that what we don't say we don't see, acknowledge, or remember. What we don't say becomes a secret, and secrets often create shame and fear and myths. I say it because I want to someday feel comfortable saying it, and not ashamed and guilty.

About violence, what it feels like to be nothing to someone else. What it feels like to be a consequence of someone else's dissociated rage, disconnected fury.

AND I WENT TO THE LIBRARY, I'M SNEAKING IN THE LIBRARY, LOOKING THROUGH THE BOOKS, AND YOU KNOW, LIKE I'M COVERING THE BOOK WITH LIKE SOMETHING ELSE. AND THEN IT'S LIKE, "ADMIRE IT, IT'S A BEAUTIFUL FLOWER, YOU KNOW, IT'S LIKE ROSES." . I'M LIKE, WE'R E NOT LOOKING AT THE SAME THING I TOOK PHOTOS OF IT.

Quando você rompe o silêncio, descobre quantas outras pessoas viviam esperando uma permissão para fazer o mesmo.