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.

Eve Ensler

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• I know what women want. They want to be beautiful.

  

  Valentino Garavani
  • Women
  • Want
  • Beautiful

• I like writing flawed women, and being one, it's something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Writing
  • Women
  • Feel

• What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Work
  • Women
  • Children

• 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
  • Women
  • Amazing
  • Woman

• 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
  • Political
  • Violence
  • Advice

• Women want to feel wanted. Men want to feel needed.

  

  Ian K. Smith
  • Men
  • Women
  • Want

• Women eat while they are talking; men talk while they are eating.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Men
  • Women
  • Eating

• Arab society features apartheid of women, apartheid of homosexuals, and apartheid of Christians, Jews, and democracy.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Women
  • Society
  • Democracy

• Within a month I announced I was going to start this initiative: A World of Women for World Peace.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • World
  • Women
  • Peace

• 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
  • Up
  • Know
  • Violence

• Women are more skilled than men at making gossip entertaining.

  

  Kate Fox
  • Men
  • Women
  • Gossip

• Men don't hear women.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Men
  • Women
  • Hear

• One of women's greatest values is compassion.

  

  Safak Pavey
  • Women
  • Compassion
  • Values

• Citizens victimized by genocide or abandoned by the international community do not make good neighbors, as their thirst for vengeance, their irredentism and their acceptance of violence as a means of generating change can turn them into future threats.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Good
  • Future
  • Change

• 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
  • Good
  • Faith
  • Hate

• 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
  • World
  • Women
  • Business

• We remain in the Romantic cycle initiated by Rousseau: liberal idealism canceled by violence, barbarism, disillusionment and cynicism.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Violence
  • Romantic

• 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
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• The dawn smiles, repelling gloom, At the dawn with violence, At every meet season, At the meet season of his turnings, At the four stages of his course, I will extol him that judges violence, Of the strong din, deep his wrath. I am not a man, cowardly, gray, A scum near the wattle.

  

  Taliesin
  • Strong
  • Violence
  • Deep

• Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor, which is one very strong argument in favour of matrimony.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Women
  • Strong
  • Single

• In times of great necessity, violence is indispensable.

  

  Bhagat Singh
  • Great
  • Violence
  • Indispensable

• Silence is an ornament for women.

  

  Sophocles
  • Women
  • Silence
  • Ornament

• Living in Cuba made me unafraid of whatever could happen to me.

  

  Brit Marling

• 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
  • Women
  • Violence
  • Issue