I posted this video on my blog a week or so ago. I love this presentation so much! I watched it while on the bus and was trying to hide my face because I was so teary-eyed. So inspiring.

I embraced my inner girl once... she pushed me away and told me I wasn't her type :/(sorry, couldn't resist!)

YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. "being a girl is so powerful we have had to teach everyone not to be that". thank you for this ladybird.

I had the chills, I was teary-eyed & so very inspiring! Thank you for sharing! I LOVE being a girl... :)

WOW. thank you for this post. I'm going to share it with my mom, sisters, and nieces right now ! !
loved it.

I LOVE-LOVE-LOVE THIS PRESENTATION!  Thank you for sharing it.  And yes, I love being a girl too...crazy and all!  :)

That was amazing! Thank you so much for sharing it. I love being a girl too!

It's actually Girls Day today in Japan I believe. ;)

Great post just before the International Women's Day!

Check out Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn's "Half the Sky" movie here:
http://www.ncm.com/Fathom/OriginalPrograms/event/Half_The_Sky.aspx

I am an emotional  creature!!   :)  I loved this.  Both heart breaking and liberating at the same time.  Thank you for sharing!

I'll resist the temptation to talk about my inner girl. Avi said it best.As a side note to Eve's beginning of self discovery in the Congo and seeing the genocide there was a peek into a longer problem.  The Hutu and Tutsi tribes have been slaughtering each other for decades if not longer. It is built into their culture, sadly. Economics are an excuse for it not really a cause.  I first knew this from a movie called "Dark of the Sun" that came out in 1968 starring Rod Taylor.  The story revolves around his character as a mercenary.  Other films have portrayed this tragedy, also.Maybe, in time Eve can start a cultural revolution for women even there but it is the minds of men that carry the machetes that create the horror.  The women must then change the minds and inbred cultural character of the men that they have learned from their fathers, etc.  I wish her success to any degree in that quest there and everywhere.

Thank you for this! So powerful, informative and inspiring :) I love Eve Ensler!

I love Eve. She's always up to something amazing. 

Ok.. I watched it now... valuable stuff.. While I hear what she's saying, I worry that anything so vital being reduced to an easily digestible chunk (i.e., "embrace your inner girl.. that goes for men too") may ultimately become little more than a platitude, and thereby become a lifeless symbol.  Yes, it's undeniable that we life in a society that more and more values materialism, machismo, acquisition, etc. but are these particularly "male" values, or simply those of a society out of touch with centrality? When we lived as farmers, we were directly connected with the land, the earth, nature, etc.; these things are typically seen as "feminine". However, don't forget that there was a "masculine" force at work there as well, in the planting of the seeds, etc.  The point I'm making is, we were once a much more creative species.  I think that when we become detached from that creativity, we miss the mark.  Call it the "inner girl", "godliness", or simply connectedness.  Whatever name is attributed, it's the same thing.  

I agree with what she has said but as far as loving being a girl it will take some time for me- past events in ones life puts those walls of steel up to not let the inner girl through- she's there just shut off- and maybe one day mine will since through but for now, she's underwraps- afraid to come to out and say I LOVE BEING A GIRL......the scared, males of the world, scared little boy in all of us has taken over and helped in building that steel wall that I'm trying to rid myself of but for now- I have alot of work ahead of me!!

She was inspiring and she is correct in so many ways!!