Eve Ensler Quotes
I honestly never understood how violence against women became a women's issue. 95 percent of the violence men are doing to women.
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I like writing flawed women, and being one, it's something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.
Callie Khouri
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I do think that having the villain be a woman is just as feminine, because we're not just saying, 'Women are wonderful and made of marshmallows,' but women can be anything. They can be amazing superheroes, or they can be dastardly villains, and everything in between.
Laura Benanti
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Liberals need to take the advice they routinely give to conservatives: that there are consequences to their divisive rhetoric, and that in their attempts to score political points, they are also inciting violence.
Gary Bauer
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Women want to feel wanted. Men want to feel needed.
Ian K. Smith
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Women eat while they are talking; men talk while they are eating.
Malcolm de Chazal
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Within a month I announced I was going to start this initiative: A World of Women for World Peace.
Eddie Bernice Johnson
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You know in my own area of Waltham Forest, we've had many murders as a result of the gang violence and often innocent bystanders get caught up in it.
Iain Duncan Smith
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Women are more skilled than men at making gossip entertaining.
Kate Fox
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Men don't hear women.
Wanda Sykes
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One of women's greatest values is compassion.
Safak Pavey
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A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.
Xun Kuang
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I moderated a panel focusing just on women and the specific challenges that women entrepreneurs face. And we found that around the world, the challenges are the same, whether it is gaining access to capital, risk-taking, or the ability to expand beyond a small business and grow.
Valerie Jarrett
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We remain in the Romantic cycle initiated by Rousseau: liberal idealism canceled by violence, barbarism, disillusionment and cynicism.
Camille Paglia
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Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you’re wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anymore.
Lady Gaga
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'There’s no reason why women shouldn’t behave like rational beings,' said Simon stolidly. Poirot said dryly: 'Quite frequently they do. That is even more upsetting!'
Agatha Christie
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Looks are temporary and don't mirror what's inside. And usually, a great looking man is so vain. Maybe most good-looking women are too. I hope I'm not!
Dorothy Stratten
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Growing up with Jennifer Lopez and Salma Hayek - people who were always trying to do something else - I wanted to follow in their footsteps. They gave people a different perspective of how women were supposed to look like and be.
Paula Garces
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I think a good designer can exist everywhere and anywhere and all the time. It's all about being good, and I think that our job basically is to make women and men look good.
Alber Elbaz
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Women have been brought up to be passive, accepting, not come forward and play a major role in life. And with age, there's a tendency to revert to that - to pull back, recede. I don't think it's advisable or admirable.
Katherine Helmond
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The single most important issue for traumatized people is to find a sense of safety in their own bodies.
Bessel van der Kolk
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There's been a lot of coming home in the early mornings after funny nights out, having bizarre sandwiches in bed.
Neneh Cherry
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The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
Ida B. Wells
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If you go through life looking for insults, you may be comfortably assured of finding them.
Ngaio Marsh
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I honestly never understood how violence against women became a women's issue. 95 percent of the violence men are doing to women.
Eve Ensler