After I had done 'The Vagina Monologues' I was feeling pretty good about my vagina. I thought I was kind of home free, and then I looked down one day and discovered my not-so-flat post-40 [year old] stomach and I realized the self-hatred had moved up.
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This quote is just one of 9 total Eve Ensler quotes in our collection. Eve Ensler is known for saying 'After I had done 'The Vagina Monologues' I was feeling pretty good about my vagina. I thought I was kind of home free, and then I looked down one day and discovered my not-so-flat post-40 [year old] stomach and I realized the self-hatred had moved up.' as well as some of the following quotes.
We are focusing on bringing the stories of these women to the world. These stories must be told if we are going to stop this from happening again.
It seems to me that we spend an inordinate amount of time and attention on fixing ourselves when we could really be directing that out to serving others.
We focus on fixing our bodies. We spend $40 billion a year on beauty products. What if we actually took that money, took that time, took that energy and started fixing the world. Women would actually be in power.
Good is towing the line, being behaved, being quiet, being passive, fitting in, being liked, and great is being messy, having a belly, speaking your mind, standing up for what you believe in, fighting for another paradigm, not letting people talk you out of what you know to be true.
I couldn't believe how many hours a day I was obsessing on it. And I thought, this can't be true, because I'm a radical feminist. But it was. So I thought I'd better look at what was going on beneath this obsession.
![After I had done 'The Vagina Monologues' I was feeling pretty good about my vagina. I thought I was kind of home free, and then I looked down one day and discovered my not-so-flat post-40 [year old] stomach and I realized the self-hatred had moved up. -Eve Ensler](/quoteImage/618209/After-I-had-done.jpg)
This quote is just one of 9 total Eve Ensler quotes in our collection. Eve Ensler is known for saying 'After I had done 'The Vagina Monologues' I was feeling pretty good about my vagina. I thought I was kind of home free, and then I looked down one day and discovered my not-so-flat post-40 [year old] stomach and I realized the self-hatred had moved up.' as well as some of the following quotes.