Quotes from Eve Ensler

se uma coisa não é nomeada, essa coisa não é vista e não existe.

Falo porque não devia falar.

Não aguento mais que a violência contra a mulher não seja uma prioridade internacional quando uma em cada três mulheres será estuprada ou espancada ao longo da vida [...].

Precisamos que as pessoas tentem imaginar de verdade – de uma vez por todas – como é ter seu corpo invadido, sua mente despedaçada, sua alma estilhaçada.

dare you to stop counting and start acting. To stop pleasing and start defying. I dare you to trust what you know. The second wind is beyond data.

Make it new. Take me to the core of holy destruction and death and let me survive your excruciating heat. Let me throw what isn't useful into your flame. Dissolve it there and make me new, make me whole.

When I wrote 'The Good Body,' I turned 40 and suddenly had this stomach. It seemed like the end of the world. Because I didn't value my body. I was constantly judging it, but I also didn't live in it.

Do I think it's great that we have a celebrity system where some people matter and some people don't? No. But do I think we'll always create icons and legends? Yeah, I probably do.

I grew up in a tradition where having ideas and contributing to the community and creating art that had an impact on the world mattered. That's part of the Jewish tradition.

I think the world is always improving and always not improving. I think that both are simultaneously happening all the time.

The love is all around us. I made a life of love.

Cancer essentially lives in us and becomes activated at some point, and then cells begin to psychotically divide. Initially, the cancer cell looks like other cells and the body invites it in.

I'm in good shape. My cancer means I have lost a lot of organs and I'm a lot lighter. I have devoted myself to yoga and I'm doing handstands.

Dance has a transformative effect on bodily trauma.

If you were around in the '60s, you already know that music and art and love are a critical part of the revolution. This is how we fight.

People are more afraid to love than they are to kill.

Before cancer, I was obviously disconnected. I had a tumor the size of a mango inside me and didn't do anything about it. It wasn't like I didn't know something was wrong.

I've been involved in social activism my entire life, and I would argue that many people involved in social activist movements have done very little work on themselves.

One of the most radical things women can do is to love their body.

When you rape, beat, maim, mutilate, burn, bury, and terrorize women, you destroy the essential life energy on the planet.

Give voice to what you know to be true, and do not be afraid of being disliked or exiled. I think that's the hard work of standing up for what you see.

I honestly never understood how violence against women became a women's issue. 95 percent of the violence men are doing to women.

Unless men are active allies, we'll never end violence against women and girls.

When you listen to other women's stories, you begin to understand your own better, and you begin to find ways back through and with each other.