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.
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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.
In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture
You cannot get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have the facts, you cannot make proper judgments about what is going on.
I would like to understand things better, but I don’t want to understand them perfectly.
I believe that all the survivors are mad. One time or another their madness will explode. You cannot absorb that much madness and not be influenced by it. That is why the children of survivors are so tragic. I see them in school. They don't know how
We thought we were being mature when we were only being safe. We imagined we were being responsible but were only being cowardly. What we called realism turned out to be a way of avoiding things rather than facing them.
When you have no experience of pain, it is rather hard to experience joy.
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