Quotes by Eve Ensler

About Eve Ensler:

Eve Ensler is an American playwright, performer, feminist, and activist, best known for her play The Vagina Monologues. Charles Isherwood of The New York Times called "The Vagina Monologues" "probably the most important piece of political theater of the last decade."[citation needed] 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.
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I think when people begin to tell their stories, everything changes, because not only are you legitimised in the telling of your story and are you found, literally, like you matter, you exist in the telling of your story, but when you hear your story...

Eve Ensler

Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars. Learn how to drive a stick shift. Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back. Say no when you don’t want to do somethin...

Eve Ensler

It seems to me there's this tyranny that's not accidental or incidental, to make women feel compelled to look like somebody they're not. I think the effort is being made to get us to turn our time and attention to this instead of important political ...

Eve Ensler

I think the world is always improving and always not improving. I think that both are simultaneously happening all the time.

Eve Ensler

I'm a nomad. I have a place in New York in the Flatiron District, and I have a place in Paris in Ile Saint-Louis, and I spend a lot of time in Congo.

Eve Ensler

I was a waitress for nine years, which I don't regret at all. It taught me about discipline. I was always writing; it took a long time to make a career of it.

Eve Ensler

It's a weird thing about the truth: It protects you. What really makes you vulnerable is when you're lying because you're going to get caught. When you tell the truth, there's a strange relief that comes.

Eve Ensler

Well, the tyranny of masculinity and the tyranny of patriarchy I think has been much more deadly to men than it has to women. It hasn't killed our hearts. It's killed men's hearts. It's silenced them; it's cut them off.

Eve Ensler

Unless men are active allies, we'll never end violence against women and girls.

Eve Ensler

I think all my work's been about how do women get back into our bodies; how do men get back. We're all disassociated.

Eve Ensler

I was born in Manhattan and grew up in Scarsdale. Scarsdale didn't work for me as a place at all.

Eve Ensler

I would rate the fact that I get to be alive a big beautiful 10. Satisfaction with myself - work in progress.

Eve Ensler

I think violence against women in America has become ordinary - it's been made absolutely acceptable.

Eve Ensler

When you listen to other women's stories you begin to understand your own better and you begin to find ways back through and with each other.

Eve Ensler

I really want to help stop violence toward women.

Eve Ensler

For many years now, I feel like my own body struggle has been linked and connected with women I meet in the world. I think we're in this together.

Eve Ensler

Author Bio

  • NameEve Ensler
  • DescriptionAmerican playwright, performer, feminist, activist and artist
  • BornMay 25, 1953
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionArtist; Actor; Playwright; Author; Autobiographer
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship