What neo-capitalism does so brilliantly is that it's always subdividing and dividing, so that people are never able to be joined in their numbers and strength in a unified way. That is exactly what we have to overcome.
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 EnslerSuccess itself doesn't give you happiness. It's what you do with your success that gives you happiness.
Eve EnslerI would rate the fact that I get to be alive a big beautiful 10. Satisfaction with myself - work in progress.
Eve EnslerThe mechanism of violence is what destroys women, controls women, diminishes women and keeps women in their so-called place.
Eve EnslerWhat I would say to young women is: Pay attention to the real. Pay attention to what you're really thirsting for. What do you really want? And I think that's much harder to decipher in a culture that has no interest in it. What interests me is, are we going to wake in time? Are human beings going to wake up to ourselves, to the incredible poverty that's on this planet, to what we're doing to the earth, to what we're doing to women, to what we're doing to boys? That's what's important.
Eve Ensler