(word)拥抱你内心的少女 英语演讲稿.docVIP

Eve Ensler：Embrace your inner girl Good morning. Im very happy to be here in India. And Ive been thinking a lot about what I have learned over these last particularly 11 years with V-Day and The Vagina Monologues, traveling the world, essentially meeting with women and girls across the planet to stop violence against women. What I want to talk about today is is this particular cell, or grouping of cells, that is in each and every one of us. And I want to call it the girl cell. And its in men as well as in women. I want you to imagine that this particular grouping of cells is central to the evolution of our species and the continuation of the human race. And I want you imagine that at some point in history a group of powerful people invested in owning and controlling the world understood that the suppression of this particular cell, the oppression of these cells, the reinterpretation of these cells, the undermining of these cells, getting us to believe in the weakness of these cells and the crushing, eradicating, destroying, reducing these cells, basically began the process of killing off the girl cell, which was, by the way, patriarchy. I want you to imagine that the girl is a chip in the huge macrocosm of collective consciousness. And it is essential to balance, to wisdom, and to actually the future of all of us. And then I want you to imagine that this girl cell is compassion, and its empathy, and its passion itself, and its vulnerability, and its openness and its intensity and its association, and its relationship, and it is intuitive. And then lets think how compassion informs wisdom, and that vulnerability is our greatest strength, and that emotions have inherent logic, which lead to radical, appropriate, saving action. And then lets remember that weve been taught the exact opposite by the powers that be, that compassion clouds your thinking, that it gets in the way, that vulnerability is weakness, that emotions are not to be trusted, and youre not supposed to