Eve Ensler

When you rape, beat, maim, mutilate, burn, bury, and terrorize women, you destroy the essential life energy on the planet. You force what is meant to be open, trusting, nurturing, creative, and alive to be bent, infertile, and broken.

When you rape, beat, maim, mutilate, burn, bury, and terrorize women, you destroy the essential life energy on the planet. You force what is meant to be open, trusting, nurturing, creative, and alive to be bent, infertile, and broken.

No wonder priests and ministers in skirts

sprinkle imitation birth fluid over our heads, give us new names, and promise rebirth into everlasting life.

No wonder the male priesthood tries to keep women away from the altar, just as women are kept away

from control of our own powers of reproduction.

future will heal their selves—and mend the world.

Glenn Close gets 2,500 people to stand and chant

the word cunt.

Cunt Workshop atWesleyanUniversity.

When you rape, beat, maim, mutilate, burn, bury, and terrorize women, you destroy the

essential life energy on the planet.

You force what is meant to be open, trusting, nurturing, creative, and

alive to be bent, infertile, and broken.

Whoopi Goldberg, Susan

Sarandon, Glenn Close, Winona Ryder, Marisa Tomei, Shirley Knight, Lois Smith, Kathy Najimy,

Calista Flockhart, Lily Tomlin, Hazelle Goodman, Margaret Cho, Hannah Ensler-Rivel, BETTY,

Klezmer Women, Ulali, Phoebe Snow, Gloria Steinem, Soraya Mire, and Rosie Perez