I couldn`t believe how many hours a day I was obsessing on it. And I thought, this can`t be true, because I`m a radical feminist. But it was. So I thought I`d better look at what was going on beneath this obsession.
Good is towing the line, being behaved, being quiet, being passive, fitting in, being liked, and great is being messy, having a belly, speaking your mind, standing up for what you believe in, fighting for another paradigm, not letting people talk you out ...
Doing this show is really painful each time I perform it. The degree to which women hate their bodies is profoundly sad. Let`s just put off our self-hatred for 10 years, take over the world, and then we can obsess again.
After I had done `The Vagina Monologues` I was feeling pretty good about my vagina. I thought I was kind of home free, and then I looked down one day and discovered my not-so-flat post-40 [year old] stomach and I realized the self-hatred had moved up,
I have been a depressed person most of m life. I was always in the throes of self-hatred.
