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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I believe in holding still. I believe that the secrets we hold in our hearts are our anchors, that even the unspoken between us is a measure of our every promise to the living and to the dead. And all our promises, like all our hopes, move us through life with the power of an ocean liner pushing through the sea.
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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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Boundless intemperance In nature is a tyranny. It hath been Th' untimely emptying of the happy throne And fall of many kings.
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When human hearts break and human hearts despair, then from the twilight of the past the great conquerors of distress and care, of disgrace and misery, of spiritual slavery and physical compulsion, look down on them and hold out their eternal hands to the despairing mortals.
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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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Our brains may lie to us, but our hearts never do.
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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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Only a creature that can think symbolically about life can conceive of its own death. Our knowledge of death is part of our knowledge of life.
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That rockabilly sound wasn't as simple as I thought it was.
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People are hungry for something more beautiful, for something greater than people round about can give. There is a great hunger for God in the world today. Everywhere there is much suffering, but there is also great hunger for God and love for each other.
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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.
