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V-Moments by Eve Ensler

Turn Pain to Power

10/06/2009
Somewhere on this planet right now a girl or woman is standing up for her rights, refusing to be cut or sold or beaten or raped or married off or denied school and resources.

Somewhere on this planet right now a girl or woman is standing up for her rights, refusing to be cut or sold or beaten or raped or married off or denied school and resources.

Breaking the Silence in Bukavu

09/21/2008
I write to you from Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). I write living in the midst of the greatest violence and despair and the greatest possibility. I think if we learn anything in the work we do it is that being able to stand in the center of opposites is what eventually makes us free and compassionate. The DRC reminds me of this everyday.

I write to you from Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). I write living in the midst of the greatest violence and despair and the greatest possibility.

The Road to New Orleans

04/01/2008
I am on my way to San Francisco, the last city of the V to 10th tour before New Orleans. It has been a wild, inspiring, disturbing journey. I have spoken at nearly 22 places—colleges, conferences, auditoriums, theatres...

Dear V Warriors,

Welcome to V to the 10th

09/26/2007
Welcome to V to the 10th - the celebration, the call, the decision, the next step. Welcome to the next ten years where together we will raise the stakes, go further, go deeper, increase the power and CHANGE THE STORY OF WOMEN...

Dear V Activists

Women Left for Dead--and the Man Who's Saving Them

08/01/2007
I have just returned from hell. I am trying for the life of me to figure out how to communicate what I have seen and heard in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. How do I convey these stories of atrocities without your shutting down, quickly turning the page or feeling too disturbed?

Eve Ensler Writes from Haiti

04/19/2007
I write to you as I am leaving Port Au Prince, Haiti. I am moved, inspired, in deep sorrow, in outrage. I am filled with a vastness of contradictions that explode the heart and bend the mind. Beauty in the mountains, the sky, the earth, the stars, the air, the jasmine, the moon. Rhythms and music - Boukman Eksperyans, you can feel the entire world pulse through your body. Extreme poverty so devastating it is a serious form of violence...

Eve Ensler Writes From Haiti

04/19/2007
I write to you as I am leaving Port Au Prince, Haiti. I am moved, inspired, in deep sorrow, in outrage. I am filled with a vastness of contradictions that explode the heart and bend the mind. Beauty in the mountains, the sky, the earth, the stars, the air, the jasmine, the moon. Rhythms and music - Boukman Eksperyans, you can feel the entire world pulse through your body. Extreme poverty so devastating it is a serious form of violence...

What Happened to Peace?

10/23/2006
I did not realize the full potential and viability of the theater when I began The Vagina Monologues. I had certainly experienced the magic and the power before, but I had yet to understand its truly sacred nature, its ability to explode trauma, create public discourse, empower people on the deepest political and spiritual levels and ultimately move them to action.

I did not realize the full potential and viability of the theater when I began The Vagina Monologues.

The Power and Mystery of Naming Things

03/20/2006
I believe in the power and mystery of naming things. Language has the capacity to transform our cells, rearrange our learned patterns of behavior and redirect our thinking. I believe in naming what's right in front of us because that is often what is most invisible...

I believe in the power and mystery of naming things. Language has the capacity to transform our cells, rearrange our learned patterns of behavior and redirect our thinking.

Commentary by Eve Ensler on World Health Organization (WHO) Multi-Country Study on Women’s Health and Domestic Violence

12/06/2005
I spent my morning reading the World Health Organization (WHO) Multi-Country Study On Women's Health and Domestic Violence against Women which interviewed 24,000 women in 10 countries...

I spent my morning reading the World Health Organization (WHO) Multi-Country Study On Women’s Health and Domestic Violen