Eve Ensler

I try not to think about what people think of me. You can't, because then you get hung up in all the people who love you, and you've also got all the people who hate you, because of what you're doing. ”

One of the most radical things women can do is to love their body. ”

Unless men are active allies, we'll never end violence against women and girls. ”

I think that anytime you get clear about what your mission is or what your focus wants to be, things start to come together in your life. ”

Cancer essentially lives in us and becomes activated at some point, and then cells begin to psychotically divide. Initially, the cancer cell looks like other cells and the body invites it in. ”

Since cancer, I feel like I have dreams rather than ambitions, visions rather than plans. ”

Whatever culture, whatever country, girls are taught to please others as opposed to pleasing themselves. ”

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 handstands. ”

Well, the tyranny of masculinity and the tyranny of patriarchy I think has been much more deadly to men than it has to women. It hasn't killed our hearts. It's killed men's hearts. It's silenced them; it's cut them off. ”

People think that when you're connected with other people it's more painful. The opposite is true. When you're connected to the river you have despair, but you also have joy, and there's a flow in the river. ”