“… 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

Last update Sept. 28, 2023. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "… to speak of them out loud, to speak of their hunger and pain and loneliness and humour, to make them visible so that …" by Eve Ensler?
Eve Ensler photo
Eve Ensler14
American playwright, performer, feminist, activist and arti… 1953

Related quotes

Jodi Picoult photo

“There are kinds of pain that you can't speak out loud.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Variant: Even though it hurt, there are kinds of pain you couldn't speak out loud.
Source: Handle with Care

Jodi Picoult photo

“Until I understood why you didn't cry, even though it hurt: there are kinds of pain you couldn't speak out loud.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

T. B. Joshua photo

““Someone out there is waiting for you for a lifetime. You cannot afford to fail them; failing them is failing God. Remember, God is speaking to you through them, saying: 'They are fatherless, so that you can be their father.' 'They are lonely, so that you can be their companion.' 'They are in want, so that you can be their benefactor.'”

T. B. Joshua (1963) Nigerian Christian leader

” <br class="br">On the importance of charity - &quot;SCATTERED! Eleven Children, One Wife, No Home&quot; http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/news/1273/scattered-eleven-children-one-wife-no-home.html Nigerian Voice (October 9 2009)

“Some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Some truths are so painful that only shame can help you live with them. Some things are so sad that only your soul can do the crying for them.”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

“We do not need to grieve for the dead. Why should we grieve for them? They are now in a place where there is no more shadow, darkness, loneliness, isolation, or pain. They are home.”

John O'Donohue (1956–2008) Irish writer, priest and philosopher

Source: Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

Jacques Delors photo

“Federalism is a guideline, not a pornographic word, you can speak it out loud…We have been focusing too much on a country that has said no, no, no!”

Jacques Delors (1925) French economist and politician

Speech in Maastricht (8 December 1991), quoted in Charles Grant, Delors - Inside the House that Jacques Built (London: Nicholas Brearley, 1994), p. 200.

Terry Pratchett photo

“Them as can do, has to do for them as can't. And someone has to speak up for them as has no voices.”

Terry Pratchett book The Wee Free Men

Variant: Them as can do has to do for them as can't. And someone has to speak up for them as has no voices.
Source: The Wee Free Men

Black Elk photo

“The Great Spirit is everywhere; He hears whatever is in our minds and our hearts, and it is not necessary to speak to Him in a loud voice.”

Black Elk (1863–1950) Oglala Lakota leader

The Sacred Pipe (1953)

Jorge Luis Borges photo

“I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.”

Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature

Related topics