I Am an Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls Around the World

　　In this daring book, internationally acclaimed author and playwright Eve Ensler offers fictional monologues and stories inspired by girls around the globe. Fierce, tender, and smart, I Am an Emotional Creature is a celebration of the authentic voice inside every girl and an inspiring call to action for girls everywhere to speak up, follow their dreams, and become the women they were always meant to be.

　　This paperback edition features new material about starting a discussion group based on the book.

作者簡介

　　Eve Ensler is an internationally bestselling author and an acclaimed playwright whose works for the stage include The Vagina Monologues, Necessary Targets, and The Good Body. She is the author of Insecure at Last, a political memoir. Ensler is the founder of V-Day, the global movement to end violence against women and girls. In the last decade, V-Day has raised more than ＄70 million for grassroots groups that work to end violence against women and girls around the world. Eve Ensler lives in Paris and New York City.

I AM AN EMOTIONAL CREATURE

I love being a girl.
I can feel what youre feeling
as youre 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 know when your girlfriends really pissed off
even though she appears to give you what
you want.
I know when a storm is coming.
I can feel the invisible stirrings in the air.
I can tell you he wont call back.
Its a vibe I share.

I am an emotional creature.
I love that I do not take things lightly.
Everything is intense to me.
The way I walk in the street.
The way my mother wakes me up.
The way I hear bad news.
The way its unbearable when I lose.

I am an emotional creature.
I am connected to everything and everyone.
I was born like that.
Dont you dare say all negative that its a
teenage thing
or its only only because Im a girl.
These feelings make me better.
They make me ready.
They make me present.
They make me strong.

I am an emotional creature.
There is a particular way of knowing.
Its like the older women somehow forgot.
I rejoice that its still in my body.

I know when the coconuts about to fall.
I know that weve pushed the earth too far.
I know my father isnt coming back.
That no ones prepared for the fire.
I know that lipstick means
more than show.
I know that boys feel super-insecure
and so-called terrorists are made, not born.
I know that one kiss can take
away all my decision-making ability
and sometimes, you know, it should.

This is not extreme.
Its a girl thing.
What we would all be
if the big door inside us flew open.
Dont tell me not to cry.
To calm it down
Not to be so extreme
To be reasonable.
I am an emotional creature.
Its how the earth got made.
How the wind continues to pollinate.
You dont tell the Atlantic ocean
to behave.

I am an emotional creature.
Why would you want to shut me down
or turn me off?
I am your remaining memory.
I am connecting you to your source.
Nothings been diluted.
Nothings leaked out.
I can take you back.

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.