Eve Ensler Quotes

What happened with cancer was that I just became a body. There was nothing else but body for a month. I was chemo'd and operated on and cut and poked. At first it was really horrifying and scary, and then it was just,Wow. You're in your body. This is body!

Eve Ensler

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• Perhaps no other body of literature is as subject to political pressures from within the community as gay fiction.

  

  Edmund White
  • Political
  • Community
  • Body

• The biggest thing politically within fashion is that the clothing should be displayed on different body shapes.

  

  Zac Posen
  • Different
  • Fashion
  • Body

• I was hoping, actually, that being on the other side of the camera in a scary movie, see how it's filmed and maybe you won't be as scared next time you watch one... didn't really work out! Because I know it's fake, but I just get so into it.

  

  Taissa Farmiga
  • Time
  • Work
  • Movie

• I think that we all stand on the dartboard of life. Roughly 30,000 people a year are going to catch a dart labeled pancreatic cancer, and that's unfortunate. It's not what I would have chosen. But I in no way feel like I deserved it.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • Life
  • Cancer

• Modern society has evolved to the point where we counter the old-fashioned fatalism surrounding the word 'cancer' by embracing the idea of the Uber-mind - that our will possesses nearly supernatural powers.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Mind
  • Society
  • Cancer

• Anyone who thinks Peter Jackson would fall for market forces around him rather than artistic integrity doesn't know the guy or the body of his work.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Work
  • Guy
  • Fall

• I've never experienced writer's block. When it's going really well, my body temperature goes up, and I'm flushed. I get quite delirious.

  

  M. J. Hyland
  • Up
  • Never
  • Body

• I think about my dwindling anonymity, and that's really scary because a very large part of me would be perfectly happy living on a ranch in Colorado and having babies and chickens and horses – which I will do anyway.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Happy
  • Scary
  • Living

• I am not the perishable body, but the eternal Self.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Body
  • Perishable

• When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.

  

  Saadi
  • Body
  • Spirit
  • Empty

• It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretations of this body of fact - hence changing general statements about it - and, not least, a changing a structure of the theoretical system.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Knowledge
  • Body
  • Changing

• Together we can make a world where cancer no longer means living with fear, without hope, or worse.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • World
  • Together
  • Hope

• Nothing happens in any legislative body that's not purposeful.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Body
  • Nothing
  • Legislative

• I like writing a lot more than I used to. I used to find it scary but now I've got used to it once it gets going. I used to find it hard to start. Fear of the blank page. The first thing you write down won't bear any relation to what's in your head and that's always disappointing.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • Writing
  • Fear
  • Scary

• Your body hears everything your mind says.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • Mind
  • Health
  • Body

• Lila can't be a model until she's at least 21. She is already a mini-me – it is scary. She already has her own beauty kit.

  

  Kate Moss
  • She
  • Model
  • Beauty

• Like in those cancer villages, a group of old ladies kneeling down in front of me, you know, holding a bottle of polluted water and hoping that they would get help, this is the voice that got drowned in this complex, globalized supply chain system.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Help
  • Water
  • Voice

• I love the way I look. I'm fine with it. And if my body changes, I'll be fine with that.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Body
  • Look
  • Changes

• I think Leopard is a much better system than Windows Vista … but OS X in some ways is actually worse than Windows to program for. Their file system is complete and utter crap, which is scary.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Scary

• A lot of people get flipped out if you're quiet. They say stuff like, What are you thinking? And if they don't start interrogating you, they start talking, going on and on about stuff that's totally irrelevant, and the silence gets so big and loud that it's scary.

  

  A.M. Homes
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Silence

• This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Country
  • Government

• Nothing is more boring than some old person going on and on about the way things used to be.

  

  Bill Ayers

• When you want something very dearly, you make the time.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Time
  • Want
  • You

• What happened with cancer was that I just became a body. There was nothing else but body for a month. I was chemo'd and operated on and cut and poked. At first it was really horrifying and scary, and then it was just,Wow. You're in your body. This is body!

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Body
  • Cancer
  • Scary