Look, you do everything in stages, right? I don't think everything happens at once. There are so many layers we are constantly chipping away at, down and down and down, closer and closer to what would be the body. I think what happened with cancer, was that I woke up out of nine hours of surgery and I was body. I was just body.
Eve EnslerI think one of the problems with the capitalist mainstream is this: no matter what you create to respond or resist it they will buy it.
Eve EnslerI 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.
Eve EnslerIf you were around in the '60s, you already know that music and art and love are a critical part of the revolution. This is how we fight.
Eve EnslerWhy are women immobile? Because so many feel like theyโre waiting for someone to say, "Youโre good, youโre pretty, I give you permission."
Eve Ensler