Eve Ensler Quotes

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can make me think I deserved it.

Shame produces trauma. Trauma produces paralysis.

It can be hard for the cute girl. I was blond, cute, broke. I was beat up. I was thrown inside lockers. I was burned with cigarettes. My hair was lit on fire.

I became a victim of mean girls. I became the victim of myself.

You can be chased home or hit or called names or spit on, and it's over. You have the memory of it, but it's very different from the emotional and psychological experience of feeling invisible, of not learning the confidence to stand up in class and speak.

I'd been around women who put me down, made me feel bad, or said things to fuel my insecurity.

I hated my father long before I knew there was a word for hate.

There was mental and physical abuse in my family.

There are many different types of bullying, being called fat and all that stuff, it bothers you. You have to deal with it.

I'm not a proponent of staying together and being miserable and damaged and coming through actually a more battered person.

I don't want to sound like a whiner here, but if you get beat up all the time, it affects you.

Being called ugly every day is not easy on the psyche.

I can't have my family in my life because they are abusive, and I don't have control over that. There is an abusive culture in my family, and I have to turn away from it.

I hate when people come out after a fight and they talk about injuries.

Pain in the present is experienced as hurt. Pain in the past is remembered as anger. Pain in the future is perceived as anxiety. Unexpressed anger, redirected against yourself and held within, is called guilt. The depletion of energy that occurs when anger is redirected inward creates depression.

There must be a reason that these bad things happen to me. I must be dysfunctional. So why would my dad leave? Why would he kill himself? Why would I be violated? And when you're 6-years-old, you can't comprehend that. But as you get much older in life, you begin to think what's wrong with me?

Sticks and stones may break our bones, but names will break our spirit.

It's one of the worst nightmare situations we could create for a young character, having the people who are supposed to believe in you keep telling you you're nothing.

No amount of violence you've done to others prepares you for violence done to yourself.

Sticks and stones can break your bones, but names can kill you.

But persistent name calling? that prolongs hurt. It stretches out. Each nasty word stretches the rubber band further away until finally, one day, it snaps back at you with maximum impact

My injuries are a long way from my heart.

An abusive relationship is worse than being in prison. I mean literally, not figuratively.

It's very crucial that you get your feelings out- but don't ever inflict harm on your body because your body is sacred

Bullying can be physical, verbal or emotional. Words and threats are just as painful as fists, especially with social media these days. For those of you who don't know, I was actually bullied as a young boy on one occasion.