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 →
I would rate the fact that I get to be alive a big beautiful 10. Satisfaction with myself - work in progress.
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.
Geography does not define you - love does.
I really want to help stop violence toward women.
I was born in Manhattan and grew up in Scarsdale. Scarsdale didn't work for me as a place at all.
Security isn't what I hunger for. I hunger for change. I hunger for connection.
Since cancer, I feel like I have dreams rather than ambitions, visions rather than plans.
The minute someone tells you you have cancer, it's kind of like you die. You really do die. It's like you get that you're mortal.
Do I think it's great that we have a celebrity system where some people matter and some people don't? No. But do I think we'll always... →
Whatever culture, whatever country, girls are taught to please others as opposed to pleasing themselves.
Why are women immobile? Because so many feel like they're waiting for someone to say, 'You're good, you're pretty, I give you... →
Cancer essentially lives in us and becomes activated at some point, and then cells begin to psychotically divide. Initially, the cancer cell looks... →
I think theatre to some extent is always about telling stories, isn't it, and I think what I've learned is that freedom comes when you tell... →