Eve Ensler Quotes

We have to know people who are outside of our own circle, we have to reach out to people we don't know, we have to protect people who are in tremendous danger. And we also have to not get burned out and let our fear and anxiety and depression sink us. So there's lots of things we have to do right now!

Eve Ensler

• Anxiety
• Danger
• Protect
• Reach

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• The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • True
  • Liberty
  • Danger

• Working moms commonly testify that they feel guilty when they are away from their children and guilty when they are not at their jobs. Devoted fathers certainly miss their children deeply, but it does not seem to be with the same gnawing, primal anxiety that often afflicts women.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Women
  • Children
  • Anxiety

• There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.

  

  Ovid
  • Pleasure
  • Anxiety
  • Pure

• Kicks are my forte. I've got strong legs and high kicks. And I've got very good reach, obviously.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Good
  • High
  • Strong

• My brain is so anxiety-prone, like a pinball machine. If I don't get up in the morning and focus my thinking, my breathing, and my being for about 12 minutes, I'm just a screwball all day long.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Long

• I am not into publicity. I'm not good at it. I get anxiety about it.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Anxiety
  • Publicity

• I tell you, the difference for me is between being victimized, terrorized, numbed by reading about different disasters, or reducing the anxiety by getting up and doing something about it, at whatever level.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Up
  • Different
  • Me

• The older I get, the more nervous and anxiety-ridden I get. I don't know how to fix that.

  

  Vince Gilligan
  • Know
  • Anxiety
  • Nervous

• If our hearts are ready for anything, we will spontaneously reach out when others are hurting. Living in an ethical way can attune us to the pain and needs of others, but when our hearts are open and awake, we care instinctively.

  

  Tara Brach
  • Pain
  • Ready
  • Reach

• My music started as a way to break through weaknesses - like anxiety, which was completely taking over my whole life, where I could barely function.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • Life
  • Music
  • Anxiety

• I'm left-brain dominant, so anxiety and nervousness don't affect me; most emotions don't.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Me
  • Anxiety
  • Emotions

• I am a danger to myself if I get angry.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Angry
  • Danger

• I'd love a werebear. But I guess you need that seductive element of danger. And though bears can be dangerous, when you say werebear it just sounds kind of cuddly. Probably has a rainbow on his belly.

  

  Kandyse McClure
  • Kind
  • Danger
  • Rainbow

• To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Life
  • Profound
  • Danger

• I have bizarre anxiety about being in a city - I have no idea who I am or where I am.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • City
  • Anxiety

• Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Love
  • Two
  • Protect

• I couldn’t avoid being a poet. I was really having a pretty rough time of things, and I had a lot of energy, and poems were practically the only recourse I had to alleviate that energy and that anxiety. I take no credit for all the poems I’ve written. They were a way of releasing anxiety.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Energy

• Clarity is the antidote to anxiety, and therefore clarity is the preoccupation of the effective leader. If you do nothing else as a leader, be clear.

  

  Marcus Buckingham
  • Anxiety

• The talk of sheltering woman from the fierce storms of life is the sheerest mockery, for they beat on her from every point of thecompass, just as they do on man, and with more fatal results, for he has been trained to protect himself, to resist, to conquer.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Woman
  • Results
  • Protect

• Having freed ourselves from the constraints of evolution, humans nevertheless remain dependent on the earth’s biological and geochemical systems. By disrupting these systems—cutting down tropical rainforests, altering the composition of the atmosphere, acidifying the oceans—we’re putting our own survival in danger.

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Danger
  • Evolution
  • Atmosphere

• I presently have no plans to sing in English and cross over with US fans but I have plans to reach my Latino audience first with a different style of music.

  

  Jerry Rivera
  • Style
  • Audience
  • Reach

• I think I do believe in the afterlife; I have heard stories from people who I can completely trust that have seen ghosts.

  

  Saoirse Ronan
  • People
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• I can be around kids if I need to be.

  

  Lurlene McDaniel
  • Kids
  • Needs
  • Ifs

• We have to know people who are outside of our own circle, we have to reach out to people we don't know, we have to protect people who are in tremendous danger. And we also have to not get burned out and let our fear and anxiety and depression sink us. So there's lots of things we have to do right now!

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Anxiety
  • Danger
  • Protect