Eve Ensler: What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy?

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What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy?

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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.

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Eve Ensler

American playwright, performer, feminist, and activist

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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.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 June 2019 source ↗

Others on this question

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Carly Simon

Living in London in the late 60s—setting my hair with beer cans and shopping for shoes in Knightsbridge.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, January 2010 source ↗

Warwick Davis English actor

This morning, because each day I feel happier.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 November 2017 source ↗

Omid Djalili British stand-up comedian and actor

When my bowels move freely and without complications.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 August 2010 source ↗

Cathy Rigby

Right now and when I was pregnant and when my children were very young.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2012 source ↗