Quotes from Eve Ensler

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

Why are women immobile? Because so many feel like they're waiting for someone to say, "You're good, you're pretty, I give you permission."

The mechanism of violence is what destroys women, controls women, diminishes women and keeps women in their so-called place.

For many years now, I feel like my own body struggle has been linked and connected with women I meet in the world. I think we're in this together.

I really want to help stop violence toward women.

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.

I think 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.

The older you get, the more you are aware that everybody has a certain way of seeing things, which they have to honour.

I would rate the fact that I get to be alive a big beautiful 10. Satisfaction with myself - work in progress.

I was born in Manhattan and grew up in Scarsdale. Scarsdale didn't work for me as a place at all.

I think so much of neoliberalism and capitalism has caused people to live in a state of greed, fear and consumption that is covering up so much of what we really want.

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

What I'm really interested in is freedom.