I first heard about The Vagina Monologues in my womens literature class in college. It amazed me of how many people actually already knew about it and how they already began to take part in the V-Day movement. Now that I've read the book I wish I had the time to see the actual monologues performed live. But, it's kind of hard being a full time student, with a full time job, and trying to maintain a healthy campus life.

My first reaction upon reading this book was an initial shock and curiousity to me. I was amazed that we were actually going to read a book about Vaginas but, it became a curiosity to me when i began to wonder what the book was going to be about as a whole. It amazed me so much that i just picked the book up a week before the class was suppose to and began reading. I was reading it in class, at work, even on the bus. It was so inspiring that i couldn't put it down. When I finally finished the book, I felt like it was so inspiring that i made my twelve year old cousin read it. She read it in an hour but, it amazed me how interesting it was to her. She couldn't put it down either. My cousin let her stay with me because she is becoming of age and she needed me to talk to her about certain things. When I got done talking to her I let her read the book and occasionally she would ask me what this meant and what that means. I would reply and realizing that she was curious and to some extent it was teaching her things that I would ever be able to teach her.

The next day i brought her to my grandmother house and all the old lady's was curious about what I was holding. When I finally let them read the book they we applaud. They told me to hide the cover and not let anybody see it. Since i already read the book I found their reaction very interesting. I felt that if they would just read the book themselves then they would understand Ensler's purpose.When I left out to go home they told me to hide the book. I shook my head and left. But, what amazed me the most was that I actually hid the book in my coat. At that moment I realized that maybe I didn't really understand the importance of the book? Maybe I should re-read the book? Then I began to think deeper; it's not the book that I didn't understand, it's the application of the context to our society that I needed to work on and trying to tear away generations and generations of history to the new era's physical morals.

 I leave today asking u this: Would you walk to the bus

stop late at night with a book that says Vaginas as the title?

Does this make u more or less of a better person if u did or didn't?