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The Vagina Monologues QUOTES

The Vagina Monologues QUOTES

21 " [...] mudanças sociais e culturais duradouras são obra de pessoas comuns que fazem coisas extraordinárias. "

― Eve Ensler , The Vagina Monologues

22 " I have always been obsessed with naming things. If I could name them, I could know them. If I could name them, I could tame them. They could be my friends. "

― Eve Ensler , The Vagina Monologues

23 " I bet you're worried. I was worried. I was worried about vaginas. I was worried about what we think about vaginas, and even more worried that we don't think about them. "

― Eve Ensler , The Vagina Monologues

24 " Quando você rompe o silêncio, descobre quantas outras pessoas viviam esperando uma permissão para fazer o mesmo. "

― Eve Ensler , The Vagina Monologues

25 " [...] não há nada mais poderoso que a solidariedade global, que nos traz uma segurança coletiva para que continuemos nos expressado e uma coragem ainda maior naquilo que queremos realizar. "

― Eve Ensler , The Vagina Monologues

26 " O que não falamos se torna um segredo, e segredos quase sempre criam vergonha, medo e mitos. Falo porque um dia quero me sentir confortável falando, e não envergonhada ou culpada. "

― Eve Ensler , The Vagina Monologues

27 " The African specialist Nahid Toubia puts it plain [when speaking of female genital mutilation]: In a man it would range from amoutation of most of the penis, to "removal of all the penis, its roots of soft tissue and part of the scrotal skin. "

― Eve Ensler , The Vagina Monologues

28 " Só a forma mais elevada de arte pode insistir que nós não apenas possamos descobrir nossas realidades como também transformá-las para além do que somos estimulados e condicionados a aceitar. "

― Eve Ensler , The Vagina Monologues

29 " De acordo com os congressistas, ouvir as experiências reais de mulheres vítimas de violência era diferente de ler as estatísticas de violência contra mulheres. A peça tornou as experiências mais reais e tangíveis, estimulando-os a tomar uma atitude urgente a respeito do que tinham ouvido. "

― Eve Ensler , The Vagina Monologues

30 " V-day is a movement: an organized effort to finally end violence against women.
V-Day is a vision: we see a civilization where women live in freedom and safety.
V-Day is a spirit: affirming that life should be live creating and thriving rather than surviving or recovering from terrible atrocities.
V-Day is a catalyst: by raising wide public awareness of the issue, it will reinvigorates efforts already under way and commence new initiatives in publicity, education, and law.
V-Day is a vital ongoing process: we proclaim Valentine's Day as V'day until the violence against women stops, and the it will become Victory Day. "

― Eve Ensler , The Vagina Monologues

31 " For the most part, political correctness doesn't exist here.
- Toby, Marymount Manhattan College "

― Eve Ensler , The Vagina Monologues

32 " Minha revolução vai dar um golpe no Estado mental chamado patriarcado. "

― Eve Ensler , The Vagina Monologues

33 " Para de fato compreender a violência contra a mulher, precisamos observar as interseções de classe, desastres ambientais, gênero, imperialismo, militarismo, patriarcado, pobreza, racismo e guerra. "

― Eve Ensler , The Vagina Monologues

34 " When you rape, beat, maim, mutilate, burn, bury, and terrorize women, you destroy the essential life energy on the planet. "

― Eve Ensler , The Vagina Monologues

35 " To love women, to love our vaginas, to know them and touch them and be familiar with who we are and what we need. To satisfy ourselves, to teach our lovers to satisfy us, to be present in our vaginas, to speak of them out loud, to speak of their hunger and pain and loneliness and humor, to make them visible so they cannot be ravaged in the dark without great consequence, so that our center, our point, our motor, our dream, is no longer detached, mutilated, numb, broken, invisible, or ashamed. "

― Eve Ensler , The Vagina Monologues

36 " What does your vagina smell like?' ANSWER: 'My husband's face. "

― Eve Ensler , The Vagina Monologues

37 " Slowly, it dawned on me that nothing was more important than stopping violence toward women—that the desecration of women indicated the failure of human beings to honor and protect life "

― Eve Ensler , The Vagina Monologues

38 " I had always thought of my vagina as an anatomical vacuum randomly sucking up particles and objects from the surrounding environment. "

― Eve Ensler , The Vagina Monologues

39 " Saying the word I was not supposed to say is the thing that gave me a voice in the world. "

― Eve Ensler , The Vagina Monologues

40 " Finding violence against women means opening to the great power of women, the mystery of women, the heart of women, the wild unending sexuality and creativity of women – and not being afraid. "

― Eve Ensler , The Vagina Monologues