Eve Ensler citations

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

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

“… 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.”

“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)”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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