Eve Ensler
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born
May 25, 1953
gender
female
place of birth
Scarsdale, New York, The United States
genre
Theater, Women & Gender Studies
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Eve Ensler is a playwright and feminist activist best known for the play The Vagina Monologues.
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The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler avg rating 3.90 — 2,473 ratings — published 1998 26 editions |
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The Good Body by Eve Ensler avg rating 3.73 — 358 ratings — published 2004 8 editions |
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Insecure at Last: Losing It in Our Security-Obsessed World by Eve Ensler avg rating 3.87 — 222 ratings — published 2006 4 editions |
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Necessary Targets: A Story of Women and War by Eve Ensler avg rating 3.68 — 85 ratings — published 2001 2 editions |
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A Memory, a Monologue, a Rant, and a Prayer by Eve Ensler, Edward Albee, Abiola Abrams (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.99 — 68 ratings — published 2007 2 editions |
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Vagina Warriors by Eve Ensler, Joyce Tenneson avg rating 4.39 — 23 ratings — published 2005 2 editions |
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Memory, a Monologue, a Rant, and a Prayer by Eve Ensler avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2008 |
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I Am an Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls Around the World by Eve Ensler avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2010 |
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The Treatment by Eve Ensler avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2007 |
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Going Rouge by Richard Kim , Michelle Goldberg , Rebecca Traister , Katrina Vanden Heuvel , Jane Hamsher , Christopher Hayes , Naomi Klein , Jessica Valenti (Goodreads author) more... avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2009 |
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"...to speak of them out loud, to speak of their hunger and pain and loneliness and humour, to make them visible so that can not be ravaged in the dark without great consequence."
— Eve Ensler (The Vagina Monologues)
— Eve Ensler (The Vagina Monologues)
"Looking at it, I started crying. Maybe it was knowing that I had to give up the fantasy, the enormous life consuming fantasy , that someone or something was going to do this for me – the fantasy that someone was coming to lead my life, to choose direction, to give me orgasms."
— Eve Ensler (The Vagina Monologues)
— Eve Ensler (The Vagina Monologues)
tags:
empowerment,
women
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"My trip to the former Yugoslavia had opened the world for me, and my hunger for the world. In doing so, it undid the contained, safe borders of my existence. Suddenly a woman weeping over her lost son in an image on the front page of The New York Times was no longer a theoretical entity. She was real, a woman I might have met, might have known. I was connected to her. I could no longer divorce myself from her pain, her suffering. Initially this was overwhelming. I had nightmares. I felt restless and wrong in my comforting life in America. Everything seemed absurd and pointless. I came to understand why we block out the pain and atrocities of others. That pain, if we allow it to enter us, makes our lives impossible. It forces us to examine our own values and reality. It insists that we be responsible for others. It thrusts us into the messy world where there are no easy solutions or reasons, only struggles and questions. It creates great fissures in the landscape of our insulated, so-called safe reality. Fissures that, once split open, can never close again. It compels us to act."
— Eve Ensler
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