Eve Ensler Quotes

Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I've ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn't even realized I was carrying.

Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.

I am not convinced the truth can make men free, but I believe it a beginning.

I feel like I've kinda danced around telling the truest story I can for many years of my life. I've been a little distracted by trying to be shocking or edgy or cool or whatever, and by letting go of that and telling the truest story I can - even if it's about aliens and talking raccoons - it works.

Getting to be authentic is so liberating.

I hope being honest about my experiences and contextualizing them empowers young women to step into their truths, tell their own stories, and live visibly.

If you're going to be transparent, you're going to have to let the music come that wants to come.

People are trying to find an outlet to tell their truth.

Tell others about the truth that sets you free.

I want to unfold. I don’t want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie.

'Truth Will Set U Free' is about honesty. My philosophic belief that ultimately being true to yourself is liberating, with every individual's inalienable right to be who they are without fear or recrimination.

There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.

I'm just going to go live life. I'm going to go enjoy life. I have nothing left to hide. I am kind of a free person, a free soul.

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.

I always write what feels really true and honest and me.

During 'Hawthorne', I was constantly trying not to be too outrageous and keep it serious. This has been so refreshing for me because it's such a good outlet for the inner me to just be. That's the whole point of 'Glee' anyways - to just be who you are and that's enough. I really feel that way on set.

On the first album I was saying, that's just one part of me. And then I was thinking, well, am I going to hide the rest of me now just because I'm afraid of something? No. I'm just going to be myself.

The truth sets you free. It's a very liberating thing, when you say this is who I am warts and all and then you can just get on with life. It's amazing.

Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.

The whole 'Melrose' series is an attempt to tell the truth, and is based on the idea that there is some salutary or liberating power in telling the truth.

The moment that you feel that just possibly you are walking down the street naked... that's the moment you may be starting to get it right.

Until I came out, my acting was all about disguise, and thereafter it became about telling the truth.

I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.

When I'm singing, that's all me. That's from the bottom of my heart - it's everything I've worked for. When you're on stage, there are no guidelines. No one's telling me what to do!

The truth will make you free.