Eve Ensler, The Vagina Monologues
12 quotes
"The heart is capable of sacrifice. So is the vagina. The heart is able to forgive and repair. It can change it's shape to let us in. It can expand to let us out. So can the vagina. It can ache for us and stretch for us, die for us and bleed and bleed us into this difficult, wondrous world. So can the vagina. I was there in the room. I remeber."
"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."
"...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."
"Poor women suffer terrible sexual violence that goes unreported. Because of their social class, these women do not have access to therapy or other methods of healing. Their repeated abuse ultimately eats away at their self-esteem, driving them to drugs, prostitution, AIDS, and in many cases, death."
"Women secretly love to talk about their vaginas. They get very excited, mainly because no one has ever asked them before."
"Stop shoving things up me. Stop shoving and stop cleaning it up. My vagina doesn't need to be cleaned up. It smells good already. Not like rose petals. Don't try to decorate."
"If overthrowing some five thousand years of patriarchy seems like a big order, just focus on celebrating each self-respect step along the way"
"It became a kind of passion. Discovering the key, unlocking the vagina's mouth, unlocking this voice, this wild song."
"I have always been obsessed with naming things. If I could name them, I could tame them. They could be my friends."
"I was worried about my own vagina. It needed a context of other vaginas-- a community, a culture of vaginas. There's so much darkness and secrecy surrounding them-- like the Bermunda Triangle."
"The clitoris is pure in purpose. It is the only organ in the body designed purely for pleasure."
"After all, the Indo-European word cunt was derived from the goddess Kunda or Cunti, and shares the same root as kin and country."