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.
Interpretation
Telling the truth offers protection and relief, while lying creates vulnerability and anxiety.
Eve Ensler highlights the paradoxical nature of truth and lies. When we embrace honesty, we find solace and security, whereas deceit leaves us exposed to the fear of being discovered. This quote underscores the inherent strength and emotional clarity that come from being truthful, contrasting it with the anxiety and insecurity that accompany dishonesty.
In practice
During a workshop on mental health, one might say, 'As Eve Ensler pointed out, telling the truth protects us and brings relief.'
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.
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.
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.
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By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century.
If you come on a band tense, you're going to play tense. If you come a little bit foolish, act just a little bit foolish, and let yourself go, better ideas will come.
I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect.
Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.
People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing-refusing to participate in activities that make life bad.
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