I want to touch you in real time not find you on YouTube, I want to walk next to you in the mountains not friend you on Facebook.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of real-life connections over virtual interactions.
Eve Ensler's quote expresses a deep desire for genuine, physical companionship and experiences, contrasting the superficiality of online relationships with the richness of face-to-face connections. It underscores a preference for shared moments in nature and real-life interactions rather than digital communication, highlighting the significance of being present with one another in the moment.
In practice
Use this quote in a speech about the value of real friendships versus online connections.
Dancing insists we take up space, and though it has no set direction, we go there together. Dance is dangerous, joyous, sexual, holy, disruptive, and contagious and it breaks the rules. It can happen anywhere, at anytime, with anyone and everyone, and it's free. Dance joins us and pushes us to go further and that is why it's at the center of ONE BILLION RISING.
Before cancer, I was obviously disconnected. I had a tumor the size of a mango inside me and didn't do anything about it. It wasn't like I didn't know something was wrong.
It's a weird thing about the truth: It protects you. What really makes you vulnerable is when you're lying because you're going to get caught. When you tell the truth, there's a strange relief that comes.
Well, the tyranny of masculinity and the tyranny of patriarchy I think has been much more deadly to men than it has to women. It hasn’t killed our hearts. It’s killed men’s hearts. It’s silenced them, it’s cut them off.
Why are women immobile? Because so many feel like they’re waiting for someone to say, "You’re good, you’re pretty, I give you permission."
Security is elusive. It's impossible. We all die. We all get old. We all get sick. People leave us. People change us. Nothing is secure.
In grief, words are a poor consolation - silence and agonizing tears are all that is left the sufferer.
You know how it is when two souls meet in a burst of ecstatic volubility, with hearts tickling to hear and to tell, to know everything, to reveal everything, the shared reverence for the other's otherness, a feeling of solitude radiantly snapped by full *contact* - all that?
Good-Bye is an easy word to say but try saying it to a friend. If I never knew you, I'd be safe, but half as real, never knowing I could feel.
Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?
That's who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of.
I think, don't you, that a girl with any delicacy of feeling couldn't bring herself to marry a man indirectly responsible for her father's death. No matter how much she was in love with him.
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