Eve Ensler Quotes

We're all connected, related, part of one another's lives through the stories we tell ourselves and each other. For good and for bad.

The stories we tell about each other matter very much. The stories we tell ourselves about our own lives matter. And most of all, I think the way that we participate in each other's stories is of deep importance.

She existed in her friends; there she was. All the parts of herself she'd forgotten. She knew herself best when she was with them.

It's all those stories and how they braid together that tells us who and what and where we are

A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living to the dead, people to animals, people to the land?

The truth of who we are is that we are because we belong.

Most of my lyrics are little stories about my experiences or those of my friends.

I just think that the only way we come to ourselves is through each other.

Because they're my stories, they're my version of events of the past three years. But I really hope people can hear their own stories within the songs and they can become our version of events.

The thing about being an Indian person is that you feel most at home with your own people.

You say to yourself: 'What could people, in all these countries, find in my books?' and yet I think we're all the same, anywhere. Everybody is a hero or a dramatic person in their own story if you just know where to look.

We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.

We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women - whose stories, for all our differences, turn out, if we listen well, to be our stories also.

There's a sense of aliveness that comes from connection, shared experience. And you see it in every place. You see it when ball players jump up and down, gather at home plate, hugging, and it's not just because they're winning, it's that shared moment, that feeling of - we enter the world alone, we leave alone.

I think this is one of the greatest gifts of this era: Because of the Internet, we can start to type a question into Google and watch the question auto-fill. In that moment, we know someone else has asked that same question. The gift of realizing you're not alone is incredibly powerful.

Acting is way of making yourself exist.

You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

We are a people in search of community.

One of the most important parts of my life has been community.

Stories helped me unite parts of my existence that might otherwise have seemed irrevocably split by geography and time. And stories helped me find a future in which I, such a mongrel, could be comfortable.

I'm just part of the people.

There's no way we could make up what we are. The group is just what everyone is. Each of us has a different audience.

We hunger for connection to a larger community.

'Pose' feels like a family. I love them all. It's just really beautiful to see everyone else evolve and trying to figure themselves out the same as I am.