Eve Ensler (born May 25, 1953) is an American playwright, performer, feminist, and activist, best known for her play The Vagina Monologues. Read full biography of 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.
When you destroy a population, once femicide happens, we're going to see the end of humanity, because I don't know how you sustain a future... →
Dance has a transformative effect on bodily trauma.
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.
I think the world is always improving and always not improving. I think that both are simultaneously happening all the time.
I'm in good shape. My cancer means I have lost a lot of organs and I'm a lot lighter. I have devoted myself to yoga and I'm doing... →
The older you get, the more you are aware that everybody has a certain way of seeing things, which they have to honour.
Theater has an incredible capacity to move people to social change, to address issues, to inspire social revolution.
Before cancer, I was obviously disconnected. I had a tumor the size of a mango inside me and didn't do anything about it. It wasn't like I... →
I grew up in a tradition where having ideas and contributing to the community and creating art that had an impact on the world mattered. That's... →
I'm a feminist; I grew up with feminism, but I also think there's a way in which we need to shake things up so that we can push it further... →
I think violence against women in America has become ordinary - it's been made absolutely acceptable.
Unless men are active allies, we'll never end violence against women and girls.
Eve Ensler (born May 25, 1953) is an American playwright, performer, feminist, and activist, best known for her play The Vagina Monologues.