Eve Ensler Quotes
When you listen to other women’s stories, you begin to understand your own better, and you begin to find ways back through and with each other.
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It has been hard for me to find it, but I have found love.
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You can't try and make something you think someone else will like. You can only make what you like. How can you make a song that Yo-Landi Visser likes? You don't know me. You'll never understand me.
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You have to really love women in order to really just have a respect for women and love them. No man - I don't care what kind of man it is, how feminine he is - they never could understand what we go through as far as physically and mentally.
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I cultivated this fan base that I really didn't really understand or appreciate until I put my first headlining tour up for sale. 500- to 1,000-capacity rooms weren't an underplay for me at the time. I'd never done a tour before!
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Basically, I want that relationship where we have that love. I love her so much, and she loves me so much that it's just - you want that relationship where you look into the girl's eyes, and you know that she's everything you've ever wanted. When I find that, I'm going to get it!
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Every year, nearly two-thirds of the approximately 200,000 patients in need of a bone marrow transplant will not find a marrow donor that matches within their families.
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The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.
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I always wanted to find oil. It was always an irresistible calling.
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Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
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What drives that desire to destroy Paris Hilton? What drives that desire to venerate Angelina Jolie? I do understand it, but it still baffles me. It baffles me when people treat me specially and differently, because I just want to look at them and go, 'What are you talking about? I'm just a person.'
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You find me at work; excuse the dust on my blouse. I sculpt my marble myself.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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Guys understand a waistline. They understand a silhouette.
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We lived in a flat that you could pretty much fit in my current kitchen. No wonder people drink! I can't understand why they don't throw themselves off the balconies.
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For the life of me, I still don't understand why humans pray.
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As an actor, I travel around a lot and live in a lot of hotels, and many times I've been in a town where the only entertainment to be had is what you find in the hotel bar or lobby.
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If you can find a way that your principles are actually the strategically smartest thing to do, you've kind of figured it out.
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I chase after inspiring stories.
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When I first decided I wanted to make beats and write songs and stuff like that, it wasn't like I sat down and the first thing I wrote was even halfway legit. It took a while to find my way through it.
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The gospel is only good news when we understand the bad news.
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When the HIV/AIDS epidemic first appeared, a lot of the reaction was that it's not happening here. It doesn't exist. It's not on the continent of Africa. Then we moved into this other phase, in which it was kind of like, it's everywhere.
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I wanted to shred, so I learned classical guitar.
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Think about it. For the sake of fame, men will risk great dangers. They put themselves in the jaws of death more than for their children. For fame, they will spend their money like water and work their fingers to the bone. Have you not observed this in your own home?
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When you listen to other women’s stories, you begin to understand your own better, and you begin to find ways back through and with each other.
