Eve Ensler is a playwright and feminist activist best known for the play The Vagina Monologues.
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“After I had done 'The Vagina Monologues' I was feeling pretty good about my vagina. I thought I was kind of home free, and then I looked down one day and discovered my not-so-flat post-40 [year old] stomach and I realized the self-hatred had moved up,”
Eve Ensler
“The play is much more personal than 'The Vagina Monologues' because it looks at my childhood,”
“There is just so much excess in terms of the market for self-remodeling. I think most women are perfectly gorgeous and beautiful the way they are,”
“Everything about this show just feels like a vagina miracle to me. This may be one of the only times that a theater production has really been able to serve a social movement to this degree, particularly economically.”
“Rossellini was going along believing she was at the top of her game,”
“closest to the core contaminated. They live near the reactor; their contamination is the most potent and consuming. As you get further away from the reactor, women are contaminated but not to the degree.”
“At first women were reluctant to talk. They were a little shy, but once they got going, you couldn't stop them.”
“I was drawn to vaginas because of my own personal history, because of sexuality, because women's empowerment is deeply connected to their sexuality. And, I'm obsessed with women being violated and raped, and with incest. All of these things are deeply connected to our vaginas.”
“I urge you to spend the time to listen to the voice inside of you. I see teenage girls as being the primary fuel of this planet.”
“I came to Bozeman for one reason alone. Because I believe in girls.”