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.
It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?
There was no black or white. Someone who had been good her entire life could, in fact, do something evil. People were just as capable of committing murder, under the right circumstances, as any monster.
It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with.
May the culture of life and love render vain the logic of death.
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear.
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