Finding happiness in body and soul | Eve Ensler

翻译人员: Vivian Lee 校对人员: Yujian Li

I bet you're worried.

我保证你们很担心。

(Laughter)

(笑声)

I was worried.

我也曾担心过。于是我创作了这部剧。

That's why I began this piece.

I was worried about vaginas.

我为阴道担心。担心我们对阴道的看法

I was worried what we think about vaginas

and even more worried that we don't think about them.

更担心我们对其毫不关心。

I was worried about my own vagina.

我担心我自己的阴道

It needed a context, a culture, a community of other vaginas.

它需要一个环境，一个文化，一个群体。

There is so much darkness and secrecy surrounding them.

关于阴道有太多的未解之谜。

Like the Bermuda Triangle, nobody ever reports back from there.

就像百慕大三角洲，没人能告诉我们那里有什么。

(Laughter)

In the first place, it's not so easy to even find your vagina.

(笑声)

首先，要找到你的阴道甚至都不太容易

Women go days, weeks, months, without looking at it.

女人们甚至长时间不曾观察过它。

I interviewed a high-powered businesswoman;

我曾问过一位商界女强人

she told me she didn't have time.

她告诉我说她没空

"Looking at your vagina," she said, "is a full day's work."

“观察你的阴道，”她说，“要耗费一整天的精力”

(Laughter)

(笑声)

"You've got to get down there on your back, in front of a mirror,

“你得在镜子前面躺下来

full-length preferred.

最好是全身镜。然后要找最好的角度，

You've got to get in the perfect position with the perfect light,

恰到好处的灯光，而灯光又被你的角度给挡住啦。

which then becomes shadowed by the angle you're at.

You're twisting your head up, arching your back, it's exhausting."

你得扭曲着抬起头，弓起背，这简直太累了—”

She was busy; she didn't have time.

她太忙了，所以没时间

So I decided to talk to women about their vaginas.

所以我便决定要跟女士们讨论下她们的阴道。

They began as casual vagina interviews,

刚开始时是关于阴道的随意访谈，

and they turned into vagina monologues.

而这些最终成就了《阴道独白》

I talked with over 200 women.

我访问了超过200位女性，其中有老年人

I talked to older women, younger women,

married women, lesbians, single women.

年轻人，已婚妇女，女同性恋，单身女性，

I talked to corporate professionals, college professors, actors, sex workers.

有职业女性，大学教授，演员，性工作者，

I talked to African-American women, Asian-American women,

有非洲裔美国女性，亚裔美国女性，

Native-American women, Caucasian women, Jewish women.

土著美国女性，白人女性，犹太女性。

OK, at first women were a little shy, a little reluctant to talk.

开始时她们都有些害羞，不愿多谈。

Once they got going, you couldn't stop them.

一旦打开话匣子，她们简直滔滔不绝。

Women love to talk about their vaginas, they do.

女人喜欢讨论她们的阴道，真的。

Mainly because no one's ever asked them before.

她们以前不谈主要因为没人问过。

(Laughter)

Let's just start with the word "vagina" -- vagina, vagina.

(笑声)

我们先来谈这个词——阴道，阴道。

It sounds like an infection, at best.

它听起来象一种传染病，或者一种医疗器械。

Maybe a medical instrument.

"Hurry, nurse, bring the vagina!"

“快点，护士，把阴道拿过来。”

(Laughter)

Vagina, vagina, vagina.

(笑声)

阴道，阴道，阴道，不管你念多少次，

It doesn't matter how many times you say the word,

it never sounds like a word you want to say.

它听起来都不像你想说的词。

It's a completely ridiculous, totally un-sexy word.

这是一个非常荒谬的词，毫无性感可言。

If you use it during sex, trying to be politically correct,

如果你在床上用这个词，想要尽量显得礼貌正式些：

"Darling, would you stroke my vagina,"

“亲爱的，你愿意靠近我的阴道吗？”便立刻让人性趣全无。

you kill the act right there.

(Laughter)

(笑声)

I'm worried what we call them and don't call them.

我担心我们对她的称呼，也担心我们对她闭口不提。

In Great Neck, New York, they call it a Pussycat.

在纽约大颈镇，人们通常叫它“小猫咪”（pussy-cat）。

A woman told me there her mother used to tell her,

有人告诉我，她的妈妈以前经常对她说：

"Don't wear panties, dear, underneath your pajamas.

“亲爱的，别在你的睡衣里面穿小裤裤”

You need to air out your Pussycat."

你得让你的小猫咪透透气。”

(Laughter)

(笑声)

In Westchester, they call it a Pooki,

在威斯切斯特它被称作pooky, 在新泽西被称作twat

in New Jersey, a twat.

There's Powderbox, derriere, a Pooky, a Poochi, a Poopi,

其它叫法还有powder-box, derriere, pooky, poochy, poopy

a Poopelu, a Pooninana, a Padepachetchki, a Pal, and a Piche.

poopaloo, pooninana, padepachetchki, pow, peach

(Laughter)

(笑声)

There's Toadie, Dee Dee, Nishi, Dignity, Coochi Snorcher,

另外还可以别称作toadie, dee dee, nishi, dignity, coochie, snocher, cooter

Cooter, Labbe, Gladys Seagelman, VA,

labi, gladis siegelman, va, wee-wee, whore-spot, nappy dugout

Wee wee, Horsespot, Nappy Dugout,

Mongo, Ghoulie, Powderbox, a Mimi in Miami,

mungo, ghoulie, powder-box, 在迈阿密叫mimi

a Split Knish in Philadelphia ...

在费城叫split knish, 在布朗克斯区叫schmende

(Laughter)

and a Schmende in the Bronx.

(Laughter)

I am worried about vaginas.

(笑声)

我为阴道而担心。

This is how the "Vagina Monologues" begins.

所以便有了《阴道独白》。

But it really didn't begin there.

但这并不是最初的起源，一切从我和一个女人的谈话开始。

It began with a conversation with a woman.

We were having a conversation about menopause,

我们在讨论关于绝经期的话题，

and we got onto the subject of her vagina,

然后聊到了阴道，

which you'll do if you're talking about menopause.

因为这是无法避免的一个方面。

And she said things that really shocked me about her vagina --

她谈到她的阴道，让我吃了一惊

that it was dried-up and finished and dead --

她说它干涸了，没用了，不复生机，我对此感到惊讶。

and I was kind of shocked.

So I said to a friend casually,

所以我又随意地问了另一个朋友，“你怎么看你的阴道？”

"Well, what do you think about your vagina?"

And that woman said something more amazing,

那个女人说出了更让我吃惊的话，

and then the next woman said something more amazing,

然后下一个女人又一次使我震惊，

and before I knew it, every woman was telling me

很快，每个女人都告诉我很棒的故事，

I had to talk to somebody about their vagina

我感到必须跟其他人谈谈阴道，因为她们有很棒的故事，

because they had an amazing story,

就这样我一步步滑向了阴道的“深渊”。

and I was sucked down the vagina trail.

(Laughter)

(笑声)

And I really haven't gotten off of it.

真的，我到现在也无法逃脱，如果我年轻的时候你告诉我，

I think if you had told me when I was younger

等我长大后，每一次我逛鞋店时，

that I was going to grow up, and be in shoe stores,

and people would scream out, "There she is, the Vagina Lady!"

都有人对着我大喊，“看哪！是那个'阴道女士'。”

I don't know that that would have been my life ambition.

我还真不知道自己会不会以此作为毕生志向。

(Laughter)

(笑声)

But I want to talk a little bit about happiness,

我想谈下幸福

and the relationship to this whole vagina journey,

以及幸福同这整个阴道之旅的关系，

because it has been an extraordinary journey

因为这8年对我来说，是一段非凡的旅程。

that began eight years ago.

I think before I did the "Vagina Monologues,"

我想在我创作《阴道独白》之前

I didn't really believe in happiness.

我并不相信幸福。

I thought that only idiots were happy, to be honest.

坦白地说，那时我觉得只有傻瓜才会幸福。

I remember when I started practicing Buddhism 14 years ago,

还记得14年前当我开始修习佛教的时候，

and I was told that the end of this practice was to be happy,

他们告诉我修行的最终是得到幸福。

I said, "How could you be happy and live in this world of suffering

我回答：“活在这个多灾多难的痛苦世界

and live in this world of pain?"

怎么能奢求幸福？" 那时我将幸福跟其他东西混淆了

I mistook happiness for a lot of other things,

like numbness or decadence or selfishness.

比如麻木，颓废和自私。

And what happened through the course of the "Vagina Monologues"

通过这出《阴道独白》

and this journey is, I think I have come to understand

以及这段由此展开的旅程，我逐渐开始

a little bit more about happiness.

更理解幸福的含义。

There are three qualities I want to talk about.

我想谈其中的3个特点。

One is seeing what's right in front of you,

一是正视你眼前的事物，然后谈论它，

and talking about it, and stating it.

描述它。我想我从谈论阴道中体会到

I think what I learned from talking about the vagina

and speaking about the vagina, is it was the most obvious thing --

即使它是再明显不过的事物--

it was right in the center of my body and the center of the world --

它在我身体的中心，在世界的中心

and yet it was the one thing nobody talked about.

但却没有人讨论它。

The second thing is that what talking about the vagina did

其次，对阴道的讨论

is it opened this door which allowed me to see

替我打开了一扇门，让我发现

that there was a way to serve the world to make it better.

这个世界能够变得更好的方式。

And that's where the deepest happiness has actually come from.

而这正是最深层次的幸福所在。

And the third principle of happiness, which I've realized recently:

关于幸福的第三个原则，我是最近才领悟到的。

Eight years ago, this momentum and this energy, this "V-wave" started --

八年前，这股能量巨大的“V浪潮”开始席卷世界——

and I can only describe it as a "V-wave" because, to be honest,

我只能把它形容为“V浪潮”是因为，坦白地说

I really don't understand it completely; I feel at the service of it.

我并不能完全理解它，感觉我是任由它支配的。

But this wave started, and if I question the wave,

但它开始兴起了，如果我心存怀疑，

or try to stop the wave or look back at the wave,

或试图阻止，或回首张望，

I often have the experience of whiplash

我就经常会有一种备受煎熬的感觉，

or the potential of my neck breaking.

但如果我顺应潮流

But if I go with the wave,

and I trust the wave and I move with the wave,

给予信任，随之前进，我就能到达另一个高度

I go to the next place, and it happens logically and organically and truthfully.

它的发生是如此顺理成章，自然和真实。

And I started this piece, particularly with stories and narratives,

当我开始创作此剧时，尤其是关于其中的故事和叙述，

and I was talking to one woman and that led to another woman

我同一位又一位的妇女交谈，

and that led to another woman.

然后我将这些故事记录下来，

And then I wrote those stories down,

and I put them out in front of other people.

融入戏剧，开始公演。

And every single time I did the show at the beginning,

开始时每出公演之后，

women would literally line up after the show,

都有很多女人排着队来找我，

because they wanted to tell me their stories.

因为她们想告诉我她们的故事。

And at first I thought, "Oh great, I'll hear about wonderful orgasms,

刚开始时我想：“太棒了，我会听到最棒的性高潮，

最美满的性生活，还有女人们是多么爱她们的阴道。”

and great sex lives, and how women love their vaginas."

But in fact, that's not what women lined up to tell me.

但实际上，这并不是她们要告诉我的。

What women lined up to tell me was how they were raped,

她们告诉我的，是她们如何被强奸，

and how they were battered, and how they were beaten,

如何被虐待，被殴打，

and how they were gang-raped in parking lots,

如何在停车场被轮奸，

and how they were incested by their uncles.

如何被叔叔舅舅侵犯。

And I wanted to stop doing the "Vagina Monologues,"

那时我几乎想停止《阴道独白》的公演，

because it felt too daunting.

因为这一切让我恐惧。我觉得自己像一位战地摄影师，

I felt like a war photographer who takes pictures of terrible events,

拍下了最恐怖的事件，却无力阻止。

but doesn't intervene on their behalf.

And so in 1997, I said, "Let's get women together.

所以在1997年，我说，“让我们把这些女人们集合起来。

What could we do with this information

看看我们能帮这些受侵害的女人做些什么。

that all these women are being violated?"

And it turned out, after thinking and investigating,

结果，通过我的思考和调查，

that I discovered -- and the UN has actually said this recently --

我发现——联合国最近也得出了相似的结论——

that one out of every three women on this planet

世界上三分之一的女性，

will be beaten or raped in her lifetime.

在她的一生中将会被殴打或者强暴。

That's essentially a gender;

而女性是这个星球上最基本的性别，最基本的资源啊。

that's essentially the resource of the planet, which is women.

So in 1997 we got all these incredible women together and we said,

所以1997年，我们把这些了不起的女性聚集在一起思考：

"How can we use the play, this energy, to stop violence against women?"

“如何利用这出戏剧，这股能量，来阻止针对女性的暴力呢？”

And we put on one event in New York City, in the theater,

于是我们在纽约的剧院里举办了一场活动，

and all these great actors came -- from Susan Sarandon,

我们得到了很多优秀演员的支持，比如Susan Sarandon

to Glenn Close, to Whoopi Goldberg --

Glenn Close和Whoopi Goldberg，我们在当天晚上的演出

and we did one performance on one evening,

成功地掀起了这股浪潮，这股能量

and that catalyzed this wave, this energy.

And within five years,

五年内，这不可思议的改变逐渐发生

this extraordinary thing began to happen.

One woman took that energy and she said, "I want to bring this wave,

一个女人被这种精神感染，她说，“我要将这股浪潮

this energy, to college campuses,"

这股能量带入大学校园。”所以她开始排练这出戏

and so she took the play and she said,

"Let's use the play and have performances once a year,

她说，“让我们每年演出一次

where we can raise money to stop violence against women

然后筹集善款，把反对针对女性的暴力的行动

in local communities all around the world."

传播到世界的每一个角落。”

And in one year, it went to 50 colleges, and then it expanded.

1年内，这出戏剧进入了50所高校，然后逐渐递增。

And over the course of the last six years,

在过去的6年时间里

it's spread and it's spread and it's spread around the world.

它已经成功地传播到了世界各处。

What I have learned is two things:

在此过程中我意识到两件事。一是针对女性的暴力

one, that the epidemic of violence towards women is shocking; it's global;

其范围是令人的震惊。这是个全球性的问题

it is so profound and it is so devastating,

它非常严重和具有破坏性，

and it is so in every little pocket of every little crater,

它无孔不入

of every little society that we don't even recognize it,

而我们没有意识到，

because it's become ordinary.

是因为它太普遍了。我曾去过阿富汗，

This journey has taken me to Afghanistan,

where I had the extraordinary honor and privilege

有幸被特殊照顾去到了塔利班统治下的一些地方，

to go into parts of Afghanistan under the Taliban.

我穿着蒙住全身的长袍，

I was dressed in a burqa and I went in with an extraordinary group,

在一个名为“阿富汗女性革命联盟”的组织掩护下，

called the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan.

进入了阿富汗，

And I saw firsthand how women had been stripped

在那里我亲眼见证女性是怎样被剥夺了

of every single right that was possible to strip women of --

每一项人身权利。

from being educated, to being employed,

她们不能受教育，不能工作

to being actually allowed to eat ice cream.

甚至不能吃冰淇淋

For those of you who don't know,

有些人可能还不知道，在塔利班统治下，吃冰淇淋是违法的

it was illegal to eat ice cream under the Taliban.

And I actually saw and met women who had been flogged

我甚至亲眼看见有女性因为被发现吃香草冰淇淋

for being caught eating vanilla ice cream.

而被鞭挞。

I was taken to the secret ice cream-eating place in a little town,

我还被带到了小镇上的一个秘密的吃冰淇淋的地方，

where we went to a back room, and women were seated

走进里屋，女人们围坐在那里，

and a curtain was pulled around us, and they were served vanilla ice cream.

周围拉上帘幕，有人给她们递上香草冰淇淋。

And women lifted their burqas and ate this ice cream.

女人们掀开面纱，开始享用，

And I don't think I ever understood pleasure until that moment,

而我直到那时才明白快乐是什么，

and how women have found a way to keep their pleasure alive.

以及这些女性如何想办法将这种快乐延续下去。

It has taken me, this journey, to Islamabad,

我还去到了伊斯兰堡，在那里

where I have witnessed and met women with their faces melted off.

我们见到了毁容的女性。

It has taken me to Juarez, Mexico, where I was a week ago,

我的旅程延续到了墨西哥的华雷斯，一周前，

where I have literally been there in parking lots,

我在那里的停车场亲眼看见

where bones of women have washed up

有女性的骨头像垃圾一样被扔在那里，

and been dumped next to Coca-Cola bottles.

就在汽水瓶旁边。

It has taken me to universities all over this country,

我去过全国各地的高校

where girls are date-raped and drugged.

有很多女孩子遭到约会强奸和迷奸。

I have seen terrible, terrible, terrible violence.

我见识过了极度残酷的暴力行为。

But I have also recognized, in the course of seeing that violence,

在面对暴力和现实的过程中，

that being in the face of things and seeing actually what's in front of us

我也意识到直面事实

是摆脱抑郁，自卑和无价值感的

is the antidote to depression,

and to a feeling that one is worthless and has no value.

一种很好的办法。

Because before the "Vagina Monologues,"

在创作《阴道独白》之前，

I will say that 80 percent of my consciousness was closed off

对于现实中发生的惨剧

to what was really going on in this reality,

我必须承认自己80%的良知不为所动。

and that closing-off closed off my vitality and my life energy.

这种麻木阻碍了我的生命活力和激情。

What has also happened is in the course of these travels --

在这些旅途中的所发生的——

and it's been an extraordinary thing --

确实是很特别的经历——我走到世界上的任何地方

is that every single place that I have gone to in the world,

都会遇到新的“物种”。

I have met a new species.

And I really love hearing about all these species at the bottom of the sea.

我非常喜欢听她们这些新人类谈论她们深藏海底的的故事。

And I was thinking about how being with these extraordinary people

我刚在想关于和这些

非凡的人们共事时，

on this particular panel,

that it's beneath, beyond and between,

这些形形色色的人们，

and the vagina kind of fits into all those categories.

有着各种各样的阴道故事。

(Laughter)

(笑声)

But one of the things I've seen is this species --

关于这些我所见过的杰出女性

and it is a species, and it is a new paradigm,

她们像是新的物种，新的典范，

and it doesn't get reported in the press or in the media

但是媒体从来不报导

because I don't think good news ever is news,

因为我估计好消息从来都算不上新闻，

and I don't think people who are transforming the planet

我也不认为正在改变世界的人们

are what gets the ratings on TV shows.

可以在电视节目上取得高收视率。

But every single country I have been to --

但在我曾去过的每个国家——在过去的6年里

and in the last six years, I've been to about 45 countries,

我到过45个国家，还有很多小的城市，乡村和小镇

and many tiny little villages and cities and towns --

I have seen something what I've come to call "vagina warriors."

我遇见了很多被我称作“阴道卫士”的人。

A "vagina warrior" is a woman, or a vagina-friendly man,

“阴道卫士”通常是女性，或者同情女性遭遇的男性，

who has witnessed incredible violence or suffered it,

他们曾目睹或经历过残酷的暴力行为，

and rather than getting an AK-47 or a weapon of mass destruction

不同于抄起刀枪大肆报复，

or a machete,

她们用身体默默承受，

they hold the violence in their bodies;

they grieve it; they experience it; and then they go out

用心灵哀悼和感悟，然后走出家门

and devote their lives to making sure it doesn't happen to anybody else.

投入毕生的努力来确保这些事不会再发生在别人身上。

I have met these women everywhere on the planet,

我在世界各地都见识过这样的女性。

and I want to tell a few stories,

我想给你们讲一些故事，

because I believe that stories are the way that we transmit information,

因为我认为故事是传递信息的最好载体，

where it goes into our bodies.

它让我们感同身受。我认为关于在TED做演讲

And I think one of the things about being at TED that's been very interesting

最有趣的一点是

is that I live in my body a lot,

我现在更多的用身体感知世界，而不再常常用大脑感知。

and I don't live in my head very much anymore.

And this is a very heady place.

而TED恰恰是一个注重大脑的地方。

And it's been really interesting to be in my head

对我来说用大脑感知是件很有趣的事。

for the last two days; I've been very disoriented --

在过去的两天里，我非常迷茫——

(Laughter)

(笑声)

because I think the world, the V-world, is very much in your body.

因为我觉得这个V世界是关于身体的。

It's a body world, and the species really exists in the body.

这是个用身体感知的世界，我们这个物种其实是存在于身体中（而非大脑中），

And I think there's a real significance in us attaching our bodies to our heads,

我认为在身体和大脑之间建立联系

是具有重要意义的——这种身脑分隔

that that separation has created a divide

造成了目的和意图的分离。

that is often separating purpose from intent.

And the connection between body and head

而身体和大脑的联系则将两者合而为一。

often brings those things into union.

I want to talk about three particular people that I've met,

我想告诉你们我遇到过的三个典型人物

vagina warriors, who really transformed my understanding

三位阴道卫士，她们真正改变了

of this whole principle and species,

我对整个信念和这些女性的看法，

and one is a woman named Marsha Lopez.

第一位是名叫Marsha Lopez的女性

Marsha Lopez was a woman I met in Guatemala.

我是在危地马拉认识她的

She was 14 years old, and she was in a marriage

她当时14岁，已婚，

and her husband was beating her on a regular basis.

她的丈夫经常打她，

And she couldn't get out,

她不能逃脱，因为她沉溺于这段婚姻关系，

because she was addicted to the relationship,

and she had no money.

而且她没有钱。她的妹妹

Her sister was younger than her, and she applied --

we had a "Stop Rape" contest a few years ago in New York --

申请参加了我们几年前在纽约举行的“停止强暴”的比赛，

and she applied, hoping that she would become a finalist

她希望能够入围决赛，

and she could bring her sister.

这样她就能把她的姐姐带到纽约来。

She did become a finalist; she brought Marsha to New York.

她确实成功了，她把Marsha带到了纽约。

And at that time,

那次我们举行了一个不同凡响的“V日”活动

we did this extraordinary V-Day at Madison Square Garden,

在麦迪逊花园广场，我们的票销售一空

where we sold out the entire testosterone-filled dome --

18,000 people standing up to say "Yes" to vaginas,

一万八千名激情澎湃的人一起

宣誓发对暴力，那是个很了不起的改变。

which was really a pretty incredible transformation.

And she came, and she witnessed this,

她在那里见证了这一切，然后决定

and she decided that she would go back and leave her husband,

回去后离开她的丈夫，

and that she would bring V-Day to Guatemala.

还要把“V日”也带到危地马拉。

She was 21 years old.

她21岁的时候，我去了危地马拉，

I went to Guatemala and she had sold out the National Theater of Guatemala.

她卖光了危地马拉国家剧院所有的票。

And I watched her walk up on stage in her red short dress and high heels,

我看着她穿着红色短裙和高跟鞋走上舞台

and she stood there and said, "My name is Marsha.

站在那里对所有人说:“我是Marsha，

我曾忍受家庭暴力长达5年

I was beaten by my husband for five years. He almost murdered me.

我的丈夫几乎置我于死地。我离开了他，你们也可以。”

I left and you can, too."

And the entire 2,000 people went absolutely crazy.

然后全场2000人都陷入疯狂状态。

There's a woman named Esther Chávez who I met in Juarez, Mexico.

还有一个是叫Esther Chavez的女人，

我在墨西哥的华雷斯遇到她。

And Esther Chávez was a brilliant accountant in Mexico City.

她住在墨西哥城，是名出色的会计，已经72岁了，

She was 72 years old and she was planning to retire.

正计划退休。

She went to Juarez to take care of an ailing aunt,

她去华雷斯照顾生病的阿姨，在此期间

and in the course of it, she began to discover what was happening

她逐渐发现有女性在华雷斯

to the murdered and disappeared women of Juarez.

被谋杀或失踪。

She gave up her life; she moved to Juarez.

她继而放弃了舒适的晚年生活，搬去了华雷斯，

She started to write the stories which documented the disappeared women.

她开始记录那些失踪的女性。

300 women have disappeared in a border town because they're brown and poor.

有300位女性凭空消失在这个边境小镇

只因为她们是贫穷的黑人。

There has been no response to the disappearance,

没有人关心她们失踪了，

and not one person has been held accountable.

没有人对此负责。

She began to document it.

她便开始记录整理，还成立了一个“朋友之家”的组织，

She opened a center called Casa Amiga, and in six years,

she has literally brought this to the consciousness of the world.

在6年内，她甚至让这个现象

引起了全世界的注意。

We were there a week ago,

一个星期前，我们在那里同7000人一起走上大街——

when there were 7,000 people in the street, and it was truly a miracle.

这确实是个奇迹——当我们在街上游行时，

And as we walked through the streets,

the people of Juarez, who normally don't even come into the streets,

华雷斯那些因为治安混乱几乎从不上街的人们

because the streets are so dangerous,

哭泣着见证和支持这些

literally stood there and wept,

to see that other people from the world had showed up

为了这个特殊的群体

for that particular community.

而从世界各地到来的人。

There's another woman, named Agnes.

还有一位叫做Agnes。

And Agnes, for me, epitomizes what a vagina warrior is.

对我来说，Agnes是典型的“阴道卫士”。

I met her three years ago in Kenya.

我三年前在肯尼亚认识了她。Agnes小时候受到过伤害，

And Agnes was mutilated as a little girl;

she was circumcised against her will when she was 10 years old,

她在10岁的时候被强制割去了阴蒂，

她下定决心

and she really made a decision

that she didn't want this practice to continue anymore in her community.

不再让这种仪式在当地继续下去。

So when she got older, she created this incredible thing:

长大一些后，她创造了一个难以置信的东西

it's an anatomical sculpture of a woman's body, half a woman's body.

那是一个女性身体的解剖模型，下半身的模型，

And she walked through the Rift Valley,

她穿越大裂谷

and she had vagina and vagina replacement parts,

带着展示阴道各部位的模型

where she would teach girls and parents and boys and girls

告诉少男少女及家长们健康的阴道是什么样子，

what a healthy vagina looks like, and what a mutilated vagina looks like.

被割去阴蒂的阴道是什么样子。

And in the course of her travel --

she walked literally for eight years through the Rift Valley,

在8年的旅途中，她穿越了大裂谷

through dust, through sleeping on the ground,

跋山涉水，餐风露宿；由于马赛族是游牧民族，

because the Maasai are nomads,

and she would have to find them, and they would move,

她必须沿路找寻他们；当他们迁徙之后，

and she would find them again --

她又再次找到她们——她使1500名女孩免于阴蒂切除。

she saved 1,500 girls from being cut.

And in that time, she created an alternative ritual,

同时，她创造出了另一种仪式

which involved girls coming of age without the cut.

使适龄女孩不再需要被割去阴蒂。

When we met her three years ago,

3年前我们遇到她的时候，

we said, "What could V-Day do for you?"

我们问她：“V日能为你做些什么吗？”

And she said, "Well, if you got me a jeep, I could get around a lot faster."

她说：“嗯，如果能给我一辆吉普车，我就能移动地更快些。”

(Laughter)

（笑声）

So we bought her a jeep.

于是我们给她买了辆吉普车。在她拥有吉普车的那年，

And in the year that she had the jeep, she saved 4,500 girls from being cut.

她成功拯救了4500名女孩。于是我们又问她，

So we said to her, "What else could we do for you?"

“Agnes，我们还能为你做什么？”她回答说，

She said, "Well, Eve, if you gave me some money,

“如果你们能给我些钱，

I could open a house and girls could run away,

我就能开一个庇护所，女孩子们能够逃到这里受保护。”

and they could be saved."

And I want to tell this little story about my own beginnings,

在这里我想插一个关于我自己如何开始这一切的小故事

because it's very interrelated to happiness and Agnes.

因为这与我讲的幸福以及Agnes的故事很相关。

When I was a little girl -- I grew up in a wealthy community;

当我还是个小女孩的时候——我成长在

一个富裕的社区，那是一个白色的中产阶级社区——

it was an upper-middle class white community,

and it had all the trappings and the looks

有华丽的外部装饰，

以及一幅幸福完美生活的表象。

of a perfectly nice, wonderful, great life.

And everyone was supposed to be happy in that community,

在那个社区里，每个人都应该很幸福

and, in fact, my life was hell.

但实际上我活在水深火热之中。我同酒鬼父亲住在一起，

I lived with an alcoholic father

who beat me and molested me, and it was all inside that.

他总是打我，骚扰我，这都存在于美丽表象之下。

And always as a child I had this fantasy that somebody would come and rescue me.

小时候我总会幻想有人会来到我的身边拯救我。

And I actually made up a little character whose name was Mr. Alligator.

实际上我还给这个人取了名字，叫鳄鱼先生，

I would call him up when things got really bad,

当情况很糟的时候我就会召唤他，

and say it was time to come and pick me up.

对它说：鳄鱼先生你该出现把我带走了。

And I would pack a little bag and wait for Mr. Alligator to come.

然后我就会去打个小包等着鳄鱼先生来。

Now, Mr. Alligator never did come,

鳄鱼先生从未真的出现，

but the idea of Mr. Alligator coming actually saved my sanity

但它会出现这的个想法使我不至于崩溃，

and made it OK for me to keep going,

使我能够在逆境中坚持下去，因为我相信

because I believed, in the distance,

总有一天会有人来拯救我。

there would be someone coming to rescue me.

Cut to 40-some odd years later,

40多年以后，我们来到肯尼亚

we go to Kenya, and we're walking,

我们长途跋涉来到刚开业的那座庇护所——

we arrive at the opening of this house.

And Agnes hadn't let me come to the house for days,

Agnes几天来一直没有让我过去

because they were preparing this whole ritual.

因为她们在为开业仪式做准备。

我想告诉你们一个很棒的故事，当Agnes刚开始

I want to tell you a great story.

When Agnes first started fighting

在她的族群为反对阴蒂切除而奋斗时，

to stop female genital mutilation in her community,

she had become an outcast, and she was exiled and slandered,

她成了族群的弃儿，她遭到驱逐和诽谤

and the whole community turned against her.

整个族群都与她为敌。

But being a vagina warrior, she kept going,

但是，作为一名杰出的斗士，她坚持了下来。

and she kept committing herself to transforming consciousness.

持续为转变观念付出自己的努力。

And in the Maasai community,

对马赛族来说，牛羊是最值钱的物品。

goats and cows are the most valued possession.

They're like the Mercedes-Benz of the Rift Valley.

他们就相当于大裂谷的奔驰车。

And she said two days before the house opened,

她说，庇护所成立前2天，有两个人

two different people arrived to give her a goat each,

来到这里，一人给了她一只羊，然后她告诉我

and she said to me,

"I knew then that female genital mutilation would end one day in Africa."

“我那时就知道总有一天女性割礼在非洲将不复存在。”

Anyway, we arrived, and when we arrived,

长话短说，当我们到达那里时

there were hundreds of girls dressed in red homemade dresses --

有上百名女孩穿着自制的红色裙装——

which is the color of the Maasai and the color of V-Day --

红色是马萨伊族的代表色，也是V日的代表色

and they greeted us.

她们热情迎接我们，她们唱起自己编的歌

They had made up these songs that they were singing,

歌唱着苦难的终止，

about the end of suffering and the end of mutilation,

割礼的终止，然后她们陪着我们一起走在路上

and they walked us down the path.

It was a gorgeous day in the African sun,

那是非洲阳光下美好的一天，

and the dust was flying and the girls were dancing,

路上尘土飞扬，女孩子们载歌载舞，

and there was this house, and it said, "V-Day Safe House for the Girls."

不远处有座房子，写着“V日女性庇护所”

And it hit me in that moment that it had taken 47 years,

我霎时感悟，尽管等了47年

but that Mr. Alligator had finally shown up.

但鳄鱼先生终于还是出现了

And he had shown up, obviously,

显然，我耗费了很长时间，才理解到他是以这么一种方式现身的。

in a form that it took me a long time to understand,

which is that when we give in the world what we want the most,

就是说，当我们为他人，为世界实现我们自己最渴望的事情时，

我们受伤的心灵便逐渐愈合。

we heal the broken part inside each of us.

And I feel, in the last eight years,

我深深感受到，在过去的8年里，

that this journey -- this miraculous vagina journey --

由V日带来的奇妙旅行

has taught me this really simple thing,

教给了我这件很简单的事，即幸福来源于行动，

which is that happiness exists in action;

it exists in telling the truth and saying what your truth is;

它存在于说出事实和自我坦白之中，

and it exists in giving away what you want the most.

它存在于奉献内心最渴望的东西。

And I feel that knowledge and that journey

我觉得这个感悟和这个旅程

has been an extraordinary privilege,

对我来说无比荣幸，

and I feel really blessed

我觉得非常幸运今天能够来到这里告诉你们这些。

to have been here today to communicate that to you.

Thank you very much.

非常感谢。

(Applause)

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