V-Day

I was there in those first days when she first began to talk about using her Obie-award winning play The Vagina Monologues to launch V-Day in fact the term V-Day was literally coined at my dining room table when Eve brainstormed with the board of the women's organization I run, Feminist.com, her global anti-violence movement which has gone on to raise over $80 million dollars for programs in over 140 countries.

Marianne Schnall: Exclusive Interview With Eve Ensler, Recipient of the 2011 Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award Marianne Schnall 2011

I was there in those first days when she first began to talk about using her Obie-award winning play The Vagina Monologues to launch V-Day in fact the term V-Day was literally coined at my dining room table when Eve brainstormed with the board of the women's organization I run, Feminist.com, her global anti-violence movement which has gone on to raise over $80 million dollars for programs in over 140 countries.

Marianne Schnall: Exclusive Interview With Eve Ensler, Recipient of the 2011 Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award Marianne Schnall 2011

I was there in those first days when she first began to talk about using her Obie-award winning play The Vagina Monologues to launch V-Day in fact the term V-Day was literally coined at my dining room table when Eve brainstormed with the board of the women's organization I run, Feminist.com, her global anti-violence movement which has gone on to raise over $80 million dollars for programs in over 140 countries.

Marianne Schnall: Exclusive Interview With Eve Ensler, Recipient of the 2011 Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award Marianne Schnall 2011

And I feel that way about V-Day - in the room the other night, you could feel the solidarity, the community, the love, you could feel people's commitment.

Marianne Schnall: Exclusive Interview With Eve Ensler, Recipient of the 2011 Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award Marianne Schnall 2011

Marianne Schnall: How are you feeling about all these celebrations of you and V-Day, both at the event last night and receiving the incredibly prestigious Isabelle Stevenson Award at the Tonys on Sunday?

Marianne Schnall: Exclusive Interview With Eve Ensler, Recipient of the 2011 Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award Marianne Schnall 2011

Not to sound like a V-Day grinch, but I'm also going to presume that you think this day stinks more than a rotting bouquet of bodega-bought roses.

Cocktails in the Name of Love 2011

Kick off your V-Day with one of these super-easy Champagne drinks.

Cocktails in the Name of Love 2011

MS: I loved when Christine Christine Schuler Deschryver is V-Day's Congo Director and Director of City of Joy was talking about how you and V-Day uniquely came in and rather than imposing, really just empowered them.

Marianne Schnall: Exclusive Interview With Eve Ensler, Recipient of the 2011 Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award Marianne Schnall 2011

V-Day is a global, activist movement to stop violence against women and girls.

Diana Mao: Washington Insiders Break the Silence on Violence Against Women in V-Day DC A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and a Prayer 2011 Diana Mao 2011

V-Day is a global, activist movement to stop violence against women and girls.

Diana Mao: Washington Insiders Break the Silence on Violence Against Women in V-Day DC A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and a Prayer 2011 Diana Mao 2011