Word: ensler
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...autobiographical monologue, which opened last weekend, is the hottest-selling new show of the Broadway season. And while Crystal may be alone on the stage, he's certainly not alone onstage. His is just one of five one-person shows--along with those from Whoopi Goldberg, Mario Cantone, Eve Ensler and Dame Edna--that have opened on Broadway since September...
...more than simply identifying with youth, Ensler admires young women who challenge the status-quo and defy the roles that society presses upon them. “Teenage girls have the Vagina Warrior mentality, when you don’t care whether people like you, or better, when you go against how you’re supposed to behave for people to like you. That’s what I want to inject into the rest of society. If more women were fully manifest, they would be loud and pierced forever just as they are in their college years...
...Still, Ensler, believes that even daring college women can fall prey to an eagerness to please, overweening self-consciousness or insecurity. She cautions women against obsessing about their bodies. “When you ask whether you look fat, and I know you all do, what you’re really asking is, ‘Do I have the right to exist?’ If you just didn’t ask that question for one day, you could radically change your life...
...Ensler, who is on the South Beach Diet, prescribes a No-Self Hatred Diet for today’s young women. “Women are spending all of their time fixing their bodies, and men are running the world. It’s much more interesting to create foreign policy,” she says...
...Ensler warns that women cannot do important and outstanding things in this society without being disliked. “You have to make a decision about whether you want to be good or great. You can’t be great and still be good.” Ensler worked hard to stop caring about what other people think of her and her work. “It’s taken me 50 years to find my own moral compass,” she says...