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Eve Ensler is an American playwright, performer, feminist, and activist, best known for her play The Vagina Monologues. In 2006 Charles Isherwood of the New York Times called The Vagina Monologues "probably the most important piece of political theater of the last decade."

In 2011, Ensler was awarded the Isabelle Stevenson Award at the 65th Tony Awards, which recognizes an individual from the theater community who has made a substantial contribution of volunteered time and effort on behalf of humanitarian, social service, or charitable organizations.

✵ 25. May 1953
Eve Ensler photo

Works

The Vagina Monologues
Eve Ensler: 14 quotes5 likes

Famous Eve Ensler Quotes

“… to speak of them out loud, to speak of their hunger and pain and loneliness and humour, to make them visible so that can not be ravaged in the dark without great consequence.”

Eve Ensler book The Vagina Monologues

Source: The Vagina Monologues

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

Eve Ensler

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

Eve Ensler

Source: I am an Emotional Creature

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

Eve Ensler book The Vagina Monologues

Source: The Vagina Monologues

Eve Ensler Quotes

“I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense. (xxvi)”

Eve Ensler

Source: I am an Emotional Creature

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

Eve Ensler

Source: Insecure at Last

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

Eve Ensler book The Vagina Monologues

Source: The Vagina Monologues

“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…”

Eve Ensler

Source: Insecure at Last

“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.”

Eve Ensler

Source: I am an Emotional Creature

“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)”

Eve Ensler

Source: The Good Body

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

Eve Ensler book The Vagina Monologues

Source: The Vagina Monologues

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