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Eve Ensler Quotes: I honestly never understood how violence against women became a women's issue. 95 percent of the violence men are doing to women.
         

I honestly never understood how violence against women became a women's issue. 95 percent of the violence men are doing to women.


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Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back.



When we give in the world what we want the most, we heal the broken part inside each of us.

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Give voice to what you know to be true, and do not be afraid of being disliked or exiled. I think that's the hard work of standing up for what you see.

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



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You have to give to the world the thing that you want the most, in order to fix the broken parts inside you.



I don't get tired, because every time a woman doesn't die or doesn't get beaten or doesn't get raped or doesn't get honor-killed or doesn't get acid-burned, it's a huge victory.

I don't get tired, because every time a woman doesn't die or doesn't get beaten or doesn't get raped or doesn't get honor-killed or doesn't get acid-burned, it's a huge victory.





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