“If we choose to live in a world where everything is comfortable and flat and “good” and tame and easy and there’s no risks then we can all be good. And that’s a life that you can choose as a woman. We all know the mechanisms of that life. We know how to move into that life. It’s not a terribly interesting life but it’s a life.

But, if more of us choose the life of messy, not knowing what’s going to happen next, being difficult, living in ambiguity, craving mystery, hungering for poetry, living in a world in which every single moment emerges as it’s emerging, then more of us would feel comfortable living in that world. 

I think this mandate for women to be “good” is so profound and so insidious.”

-Eve Ensler at 92nd Street Y

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