Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Excerpt from Eve Ensler's, "I Am an Emotional Creature"

I love being a girl.
I can feel what you're feeling
as you're feeling it inside
the feeling
before.
I am an emotional creature.
Things do not come to me
as intellectual theories or hard-shaped ideas.
They pulse through my organs and legs
and burn up my ears...
I am an emotional creature.
I love that I do not take things lightly.
Everything is intense to me...
I know that one kiss can take
away all my decision-making ability
and sometimes, you know, it should.
This is not extreme.
It's a girl thing...
I love that I can feel the inside
of the feelings in you,
even if it stops my life
even if it hurts too much
or takes me off track
even if it breaks my heart.
It makes me responsible.
I am an emotional
I am an emotional, devotional,
incandotional creature.
And I love, hear me,
love love love
being a girl. - Eve Ensler

2 comments:

GM said...

I love this!

Lindsey said...

I'm not sure if I can honestly recommend the book. I like that one monologue, and I mean... they are all well-written... It's just REALLY depressing. But you'd probably be interested in it, as it was written for teenage girls!