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.

Eve Ensler

• Hearts
• Tyranny
• Masculinity
• Silenced

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• Love is the funeral of hearts.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
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• People vote with their hearts, not their heads.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
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  • Vote
  • Hearts

• It's the tyranny of an oligarchy that I'm concerned about.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • About
  • Tyranny
  • Oligarchy

• 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.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • God
  • Giving
  • Driving

• Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Habit
  • Differences
  • Hearts

• 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.

  

  Mary Pipher
  • Truth
  • Pain
  • Hearts

• For hearts where wakened love doth lurk, How fine, how blest a thing is work! For work does good when reasons fail.

  

  Jean Ingelow
  • Work
  • Love
  • Hearts

• Slavery is wrong. If Slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and Constitutions against it, are themselves wrong, and should be silenced, and swept away.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Slavery
  • Constitution
  • Silenced

• 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.

  

  Fae Myenne Ng
  • Believe
  • Hearts
  • Secrets

• Love is a net that catches hearts like a fish.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Love Is
  • Hearts
  • Fish

• Love is the net where hearts are caught like fish.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Love Is
  • Hearts
  • Caught

• Those whose hearts are fixed on Reality itself deserve the title of Philosophers.

  

  Plato
  • Reality
  • Hearts
  • Philosophers

• 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.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Healthy
  • Nation
  • Tyranny

• When pure sincerity forms within, it is outwardly realized in other people's hearts.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Hearts
  • Realized
  • Sincerity

• God, the best maker of all marriages, Combine your hearts into one.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • God
  • Hearts
  • Marriages

• Boundless intemperance In nature is a tyranny. It hath been Th' untimely emptying of the happy throne And fall of many kings.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Fall
  • Kings
  • Tyranny

• 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.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Human
  • Break
  • Hearts

• Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Love Is
  • Hearts
  • According

• Architecture is the king or queen of the arts.

  

  Gaetano Pesce
  • Architecture
  • Hearts
  • Queen

• After a hard frost a man might wake in the morning and find he was breaking a covenant.

  

  William Henry Maule
  • Morning
  • Hard
  • Covenant

• You should be watching 'Red Band Society' because it's a show that inspires us to live. I feel like you'll get connected to these characters, and they teach you something that you can apply to your daily life.

  

  Nolan Sotillo
  • Show
  • Inspires
  • Daily Life

• Being in South Africa, that messed up my body a little bit. I broke out in spots, and I got really dehydrated, and the water was really different. It was really strange, because you're on the other side of the planet, and you think, 'Oh, water is the same everywhere,' and it is, but it still felt strange.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Up
  • Different
  • Water

• Things keep their secrets.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Things
  • Keep
  • Secrets

• 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.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Hearts
  • Tyranny
  • Masculinity