Quotes from Eve Ensler

Para de fato compreender a violência contra a mulher, precisamos observar as interseções de classe, desastres ambientais, gênero, imperialismo, militarismo, patriarcado, pobreza, racismo e guerra.

não há nada mais poderoso que a solidariedade global, que nos traz uma segurança coletiva para que continuemos nos expressado e uma coragem ainda maior naquilo que queremos realizar.

If your vagina got dressed, what would it wear?

A parceria com o movimento comunitário nos ajudou a ver a situação dessas mulheres sob uma lente que analisa a violência contra a mulher por meio de uma perspectiva sociopolítica.

At a witch trial in 1593, the investigating lawyer (a married man) apparently discovered a clitoris for the first time; [he] identified it as a devil's teat, sure proof of the witch's guilt.

Twelve years old. I was happy. My friend had a Ouija board, asked when we were going to get our periods, looked down, and I saw blood.

So much of life, it seems to me, is the framing and naming of things.

Para muitas pessoas, o contato com as histórias nunca antes contadas de abuso e desigualdade presentes na peça reforçou uma necessidade de assumir a responsabilidade por seus próprios papéis no ciclo de violência – como vítimas e sobreviventes, testemunhas ou agentes.

esse não era só um monólogo, só uma peça, mas também um poderoso catalisador de conscientização e justiça.

De acordo com os congressistas, ouvir as experiências reais de mulheres vítimas de violência era diferente de ler as estatísticas de violência contra mulheres. A peça tornou as experiências mais reais e tangíveis, estimulando-os a tomar uma atitude urgente a respeito do que tinham ouvido.

A experiência de ser acordada de um sono profundo pela peça – e logo depois lançada a uma certeza tão intensa do poder das mulheres, das pessoas e do mundo, por conta dos movimentos que gerou – fez com que eu, artista, me tornasse ativista política.

The question is not: Will you die? The question is which you needs to die off, so that the new self can live and thrive in a new, loving world.

Só a forma mais elevada de arte pode insistir que nós não apenas possamos descobrir nossas realidades como também transformá-las para além do que somos estimulados e condicionados a aceitar.

Doctors never believe how simple it is to give patients dignity. It takes a sentence. It takes a short walk around a table.

to be present in our vaginas, to speak of them out loud, to speak of their hunger and pain and loneliness and humor, to make them visible so they cannot be ravaged in the dark without great consequence, so that our center, our point, our motor, our dream, is no longer detached, mutilated, numb, broken, invisible, or ashamed.

Wouldn't it be incredible if everyone could be purged, somehow, of the projected not-them badness that they internalized and perhaps have acted out because their souls have been so damaged?

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

I am over the passivity of good men. Where the hell are you? You live with us, make love with us, father us, befriend us, brother us, get nurtured and mothered and eternally supported by us, so why aren't you standing with us? Why aren't you driven to madness and action by the rape and humiliation of us?

I am going to stop mainlining my life force / Into your self-esteem: / Air pump girl blowing up boy rubber ball / You can stay flat and go nowhere by yourself

Hysteria--a word to make women feel insane for knowing what they know.

My revolution is Connection not consumption Passion not profit Orgasm not ownership My revolution is of the earth and will come from her For her because of her It understands that every time we frack of drill Or burn or violate the layers of her sacredness We violate the soul of our future

If you are birthed into a particular paradigm that serves you, what would compel you to look outside? The mind is a seductive labyrinth camouflaging a cage. An apologist is a traitor of the highest order. For what is sadism but tenderness disgraced?

They tried to stop us even saying the names of some of the most precious parts of our bodies. But here's what I learned. If something isn't named, it is not seen, it doesn't exist.

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.