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Eve Ensler
American playwright, performer, feminist, and activist
In my 60s. So many things that tortured me when I was younger have fallen away. Writing The Apology, the letter I wrote in my father’s voice, apologising for abusing me, has freed me from the last vestiges of anger, confusion, rancour and hate. It released me from a frame that had determined my life.
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In my second year at Oxford University. There was much lolling over the side of punts on the river with languid male companions plying me with cheap champagne.
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When Peta picked me to be on their first Times Square anti-fur billboard.
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