Eve Ensler Year Quotations

We focus on fixing our bodies. We spend $40 billion a year on beauty products. What if we actually took that money, took that time, took that energy and started fixing the world. Women would actually be in power,

Cancer was the most terrifying, arduous, painful thing, but it was also a profound gift in the sense that I was holding so much in my body for so many years that was dark and terrifying which was preventing my coming back into myself.

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.

I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense. (xxvi)

In the United States, the last recorded clitoridectomy for curing masturbation was performed in 1948--on a five year old girl.