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In a moment, I thought he was a very comfortable character.

when people would talk to me about, you're gonna beat this or you're gonna slay cancer,

I would say what I'm gonna do hopefully is become more of who I was meant to be.

And cancer has given me this huge, dramatic, turbulent opportunity to do that.

Eventsler has helped women all over the world tell the stories of their lives through the stories

of their bodies.

Her play, the vagina monologues, has become a global force in the face of violence against

women and girls.

But she herself also had a violent childhood.

And it turns out that she herself was like so many of us Western women, obsessed by our

bodies and yet not inhabiting them, without even knowing we're not inhabiting them.

Until she got cancer.

I'm Krista Tippett and this is on Being.

Eve Ensler is a playwright, performer and social activist.

All of her work and writing revolves in some way around complicated, redemptive female

physicality.

Her book The Good Body includes a funny, touching reflection on her post-40s stomach.

The vagina monologues is also touching in funny places and has taken Eve Ensler places

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