Eve Ensler Quotes
Well, the tyranny of masculinity and the tyranny of patriarchy I think has been much more deadly to men than it has to women. It hasn’t killed our hearts. It’s killed men’s hearts. It’s silenced them, it’s cut them off.
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Love is the funeral of hearts.
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People vote with their hearts, not their heads.
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It's the tyranny of an oligarchy that I'm concerned about.
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It is just that he should act with reserve towards those who act with reserve towards him. On the contrary, he gives himself entirely to those souls, who, driving from their hearts everything that is not God, and does not lead them to his love, and giving themselves to him without reserve, truly say to him: My God and my all.
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Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.
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When one of us tells the truth, he makes it easier for all of us to open our hearts to our pain and that of others.
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Love is a net that catches hearts like a fish.
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Love is the net where hearts are caught like fish.
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Those whose hearts are fixed on Reality itself deserve the title of Philosophers.
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In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny.
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When pure sincerity forms within, it is outwardly realized in other people's hearts.
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God, the best maker of all marriages, Combine your hearts into one.
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Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
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There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.
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Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads.
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We sat outside the studio at night, among a few candles, and closed our eyes for a minute. After that, we jammed straight from our hearts. We didn't play for ourselves, but for the ones no longer with us in flesh, but always with us in spirit. God bless. Until we meet again. Soul fly... fly free
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Perhaps Clankers and Darwinists would always be at war, if only in their hearts.
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In no time whatever can small critics entirely eradicate out of living men's hearts a certain altogether peculiar collar reverence for Great Men--genuine admiration, loyalty, adora-tion.
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I can only approach it as a woman. Masculinity has been depicted in very black-and-white terms. There never seems to be a wide range of emotional definitions of men.
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It is so important that you don't stay with someone just for the children and for the wrong reasons.
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Women can say anything they want to men, or blacks to whites, with impunity. But strong words in the other direction can bring down on students the wrath of the campus thought police - as well as punishments that can extend to suspension or expulsion.
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The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.
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Will toys amuse, when med'cines cannot cure? When spirits ebb, when life's enchanting scenes Their lustre lose, and lessen in our sight, As lands and cities, with their glittering spires, To the poor shatter'd bark by sudden storm Thrown off to sea, and soon to perish there? Will toys amuse? No: thrones will then be toys, And earth and skies seem dust upon the scale.
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Well, the tyranny of masculinity and the tyranny of patriarchy I think has been much more deadly to men than it has to women. It hasn’t killed our hearts. It’s killed men’s hearts. It’s silenced them, it’s cut them off.
