Eve Ensler Quotes

I need you to do more than survive. As writers, as revolutionaries, tell the truth, your truth in your own way. Do not buy into their system of censorship, imagining that if you drop this character or hide that emotion, you can slide through their blockades. Do not eat your heart out in the hope of pleasing them.

Write words you’re willing to burn at the stake for. Write words you’d believe in even if the rest of the world didn’t.

I'm not scared about saying what I think.

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.

To tell the truth is revolutionary.

I think there's this pressure to get rid of the fun that makes us human. It hasn't worked on me.

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.

Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

We must know what we think and speak out, even at the risk of unpopularity.

I don't have any sense of inhibition, so I'm able to lead my life with a lot of honesty.

I hope that people will say that 'she told the truth, she told her truth, she wasn't afraid to live her truth, and she wasn't afraid to live her truth out loud.' That's what I want my legacy to look like.

Standing up for what you believe in and being honest, telling the truth are all very liberating things.

One should say what he/she feels.

Stop holding your truth; speak your truth. Be yourself. It's the healthiest way to be.

To be yourself is truly a revolutionary act, and I think more and more people should try it, because it's gotten me a pretty cool life.

Lift your head up high, and scream to the world. I know I am someone, and let the truth unfurl.

If it screams truth rather than help, if it commits itself with a courage that it can't be sure it really has, if it stands up and admits that something is wrong, but doesn't insist on blood, then it's rock n' roll.

I don't see social media as lending my voice as much as I see it speaking my truth. If you look at my open letters, the one I wrote about Blue Ivy too - you see, I am always as the foundation, talking about us being a better humanity. I believe in that.

Be bold, free, and truthful.

So it is better to speak, remembering we were never meant to survive.

Only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth, and that is not speaking.

I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits

The best thing you can do is to be a woman and stand before the world and speak your heart.

You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore.