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...important to you to make the word "vagina" part everyday discourse...
...Everything about The Vagina Monologues has been such a glorious experience. I'm constantly moved by how many girls come up to me and tell me that it was the play that awakened their consciousness...
...vulva," but it seemed much more difficult. (Laughs.) I believe in the power of language. When I was a child, my father called me a slut all the time. I came to believe that and went out in the world and behaved like that. When I started doing The Vagina Monologues, I realized how impossible it was for women to say the word. I would see the disgust, the shame, the embarrassment. The vagina is smack in the center of our bodies, yet it is a place that most women felt ashamed of talking about. What did that say about...
...Conservative author Christina Hoff Sommer once said that The Vagina Monologues has inspired "an army" of campus feminists who are "very elitist." Care to respond...
...think it's funny when she says that. There are 600 to 800 college campuses involved in The Vagina Monologues. It is in schools like Southern Methodist University, in community colleges in Tennessee and in African-American schools. It has also spread to 81 countries. It has been performed in villages in Africa and backwater towns in the Philippines. I once saw a production at Riker's Island! So, if she wants to call it elitist, okay...