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.
Interpretation
This quote reflects on the impermanence of life and the inevitability of change and loss.
Eve Ensler's quote emphasizes the inherent uncertainty in life, highlighting how security is a fleeting illusion. It reminds us that aging, illness, and the departure of loved ones are universal experiences that shatter our perceptions of stability. By acknowledging these truths, we can learn to embrace life in its transient nature, fostering resilience and acceptance amidst the challenges we face.
In practice
In a motivational speech emphasizing resilience in the face of life's challenges.
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."
I've been involved in social activism my entire life, and I would argue that many people involved in social activist movements have done very little work on themselves.
My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.
A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything)
You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.
My facts shall be falsehoods to the common sense. I would so state facts that they shall be significant, shall be myths or mythologic. Facts which the mind perceived, thoughts which the body thought - with these I deal.
We live in a world which in some respects is mysterious; things can be experienced which remain inexplicable; not everything which happens can be anticipated. The unexpected and the incredible belong in this world. Only then is life whole. For me the world has from the beginning been infinite and ungraspable.
It is easy for us to criticize the prejudices of our grandfathers, from which our fathers freed themselves. It is more difficult to distance ourselves from our own views, so that we can dispassionately search for prejudices among the beliefs and values we hold
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