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.
Maybe times are never strange to women: it is just one continuous monotonous thing full of the repeated follies of their menfolks.
There are some people in this world that believe being gay is a choice. It's not a choice, we're born this way.
When they were introduced, he made a witticism, hoping to be liked. She laughed extremely hard, hoping to be liked. Then each drove home alone, staring straight ahead, with the very same twist to their faces. The man who'd introduced them didn't much like either of them, though he acted as if he did, anxious as he was to preserve good relations at all times. One never knew, after all, now did one now did one now did one.
Having felt people's love and support first hand through difficult moments in my life makes me feel it's our responsibility to help one another.
Empathy is not simply a matter of trying to imagine what others are going through, but having the will to muster enough courage to do something about it. In a way, empathy is predicated upon hope.
I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly.
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