Eve Ensler Quotes

“stop fixing your bodies and start fixing the world!”

“Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back.”

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

“When you bring consciousness to anything, things begin to shift.”

“Danger lurks when people are dissociated and detached from their own story or feelings.”

“You have to give to the world the thing that you want the most, in order to fix the broken parts inside you.”

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

“The clitoris is pure in purpose. It is the only organ in the body designed purely for pleasure.”

“I think of the security of cages. How violence, cruelty, oppression, become a kind of home, a familiar pattern, a cage, in which we know how to operate and define ourselves…”

“I want to touch you in real time
not find you on YouTube,
I want to walk next to you in the mountains
not friend you on Facebook.”

“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 love your tree. Love your tree. (Leah)”

“In the United States, the last recorded clitoridectomy for curing masturbation was performed in 1948--on a five year old girl.”