Eve Ensler Body Quotations

I got to a nine-hour surgery, I lost lots of body parts and rearranged, I got really months of infection that I lost 30 pounds. But the idea of pumping poison into my bloodstream just - I couldn't, I couldn't.

I can only describe it as: the whole experience was imprinted on my body. And when I started to write it, it just came from such a very, In The Body of the Worldvery physical...it just came from my body. I don't know how to explain it better than that. I guess my head was transmitting it. It was a very, very physical experience writing this book.

If the theatre has taught me anything, it's that when things change in the body, in the body politic, in the body of the world, in the body of the earth, in the body of the person, there's change. You never go back.

There were momentary visitations. I was a visitor, not an inhabitant. I think I say that at the beginning of the book: "I have made visits to the earth in my body, but it's always been as a visitor."

What happens when someone throws you against a wall or tells you you're a jackass or puts you down or calls you bad names? It goes into your body. We hold it in our body. If we don't have a way to let that go and release that, it becomes sickness eventually.

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 it's, hopefully, liberating. The idea is that they'll walk out loving their body and wanting to eat ice cream,

The older you get, the more you are aware that everybody has a certain way of seeing things, which they have to honour.

When I wrote 'The Good Body,' I turned 40 and suddenly had this stomach. It seemed like the end of the world. Because I didn't value my body. I was constantly judging it, but I also didn't live in it.

Stop trying to fix your body. It was never broken.

If you are divided from your body, then you are divided from the body of the world.

stop fixing your bodies and start fixing the world!

Everything you deny is actually killing you on some level. You see something, you feel something wrong with your body, you pretend it's not happening, it goes on, it grows, it gets worse.

The clitoris is pure in purpose. It is the only organ in the body designed purely for pleasure.

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