What is a Feminist?
Eve Ensler is a True Feminist of Today!
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Feminist, Artist & Leader
Eve Ensler, born in 1953 in New York
City, is a playwright, performer, feminist, and activist concerned with
stopping violence against women and girls. She is best known for her play, The Vagina Monologues, written in 1996 which consists of several monologues
read by a variety of women that deal with different aspects of the female
experience with sex, love, rape, menstruation, birth, and orgasm. The
“recurring theme throughout the piece is the vagina as a tool of female empowerment,
and the ultimate embodiment of individuality” (Wikipedia).
Ensler created V-Day to raise funds and
awareness of violence against women and girls through benefit productions of
her play. In 2010, more than 5,400 V-Day events took place in over 1,500 locations.
As of 2013 and V-Day’s 15th anniversary, the movement raised over
$80 million in order to educate people around the world of this cause. In 2012, Ensler created One Billion Rising as
a global campaign to end violence and promote justice and gender equality for
women. Ensler is a role model and inspiration to women around the world.
Eve Ensler is the author of that
national bestseller, I am an Emotional
Creature. Jessica Valenti is the author of several books including Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman’s Guide
to Why Feminism Matters. Ensler, just like Valenti, is a true feminist that works to inspire
women to action, to follow their dreams, and become the women they were meant
to be. Their books have both been named by Ms. Magazine to be in the top 20 of
the Best Non-Fiction Books of all times.
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Famous Quotes of Eve Ensler to
inspire women:
- “An
activist is someone who cannot help but fight for something. That person is not
usually motivated by a need for power or money or fame, but in fact is driven
slightly mad by some injustice, some cruelty, some unfairness, so much so that
he or she is compelled by some internal moral engine to act to make it better.”
- “…find
freedom, aliveness, and power not from what contains, locates, or protects us,
but from what dissolves, reveals, and expands us.”
- “when
you bring consciousness to anything, things begin to shift.”
- “There
is just so much excess in terms of the market for self-remodeling. I think most
women are perfectly gorgeous and beautiful the way they are,”
- “When
you rape, beat, maim, mutilate, burn, bury, and terrorize women, you destroy
the essential life energy on the planet.”
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