Trauma dissociates us from the parts of our body that are wounded, so we have to leave our whole body. It's a journey you take your whole life, that coming back in, re-landing in your body, in your self, on the Earth. I think one of the reasons it's been so easy, in a way, for us to violate both women and the Earth is this profound dissociation that exists in everyone.
Eve EnslerFor 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 EnslerIf you are connected to your own internal being, it is very hard to be screwing and destroying and hurting another human being, because youโll be feeling what theyโre feeling. If youโre separated, itโs not a hard thing to do at all.
Eve Enslerโฆfind freedom, aliveness, and power not from what contains, locates, or protects us, but from what dissolves, reveals, and expands us.
Eve EnslerRock-and-roll was an example of change in the body of the culture. I think it's really what helped bring the anti-war movement to its peak and moved people into the streets to seize the day - the movement was the embodiment of what was happening in the music. This is what taught me that it was possible to bring art and activism together. Without that piece, that energetic embodiment piece, the rest is just intellectual construct.
Eve Ensler