I refused to know or see you. And this in some ways was the most destructive and punishing deprivation. Isn't that all any us crave, really? To be known? To be given shape and form by being recognized and cherished? For how else can we trust that we are even here? And perhaps that is why I became so extreme. Because I was invisible to myself, because I had been erased, I needed to find ways to experience my existence and feel my impact on others. For what is violence but energy given substance and force?
-- Eve Ensler, The Apology, p. 100
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