Eve Ensler Quotes

What we all have to know is the struggle is long. It's long. It may not end in our lifetimes. But the struggle is what gives our lives meaning and purpose. I tell people to take time out of activism every day to take care of their bodies, to take care of their souls and spirits.

Eve Ensler

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• Souls
• Take Care
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• Lifetimes

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• My dad was always interested in characters he didn't understand - he was such a great bad guy in movies. And that is really the thing that calls me to the material often: something I struggle to understand in human behaviour.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Great
  • Bad
  • Guy

• Getting older and adjusting to all the things that biologically happen to you is not easy to do and is a constant struggle and adjustment.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • You
  • Struggle
  • Getting Older

• Making art, good art, is always a struggle. It can make you happy when you pull it off. There's no better feeling. It's beauteous. But it's always about hard work and inspiration and sweat and good ideas.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Work
  • Art
  • Feeling

• I love coming of age stories that have struggle.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Age
  • Struggle
  • Stories

• You have to know your value, demand to be respected, speak your mind, and dare to ask for what you want. I struggle with every single one of these.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Mind
  • Single
  • Value

• What's the point anyway - Of suffering, dying? It teaches us to live, boy. A man who does not struggle does not live, he survives.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Live
  • Suffering
  • Struggle

• Plants of great vigor will almost always struggle into blossom, despite impediments. But there should be encouragement, and a free genial atmosphere for those of more timid sort, fair play for each in its own kind.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Great
  • Free
  • Struggle

• You request my presence at the Olympic Games, and for that reason you have sent envoys. For myself, I would come for the spectacle of physical struggle, except that I would be abandoning the greater struggle for virtue.

  

  Apollonius of Tyana
  • Struggle

• How do we navigate and process painful biases and conflicting emotions and press on to be sacrificial and suffer in the struggle? And what do we do with images and depictions that, known or unknown to those perpetuating them, may contribute to the impediment of human progress?

  

  Bernice King
  • May
  • Struggle
  • Progress

• The Church must actualize, be present in the public debate, in our struggle for a true concept of liberty and peace.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • True
  • Peace
  • Church

• I've always been very interested in the struggle for human rights, not just here but abroad, and I wanted to be an inside player in that struggle. I wanted to make the laws reflect our ideals and ideas in this democracy that is America.

  

  Leah Ward Sears
  • America
  • Player
  • Democracy

• Our workers, our American people who are already struggling, are going to continue to struggle until we can get somebody who can bring some business sense to Washington D.C., and I think that is the one thing I bring.

  

  Bobby Schilling
  • People
  • Business
  • American

• Sisters, to me, are fascinating because it is a unique connection of the coming together of connection and competition. The fact that you have these age differences is a built-in power struggle, and the fact that you're all trying to get attention and resources from the same parents creates competition.

  

  Deborah Tannen
  • Trying
  • Power
  • Together

• You can struggle for a little while. It's going to happen. If a guy hits .200 for a while, it doesn't mean he's a .200 hitter.

  

  Jake Arrieta
  • Guy
  • Struggle

• In the struggle between capital and labor, more often than not capital has won, because the real source of value for most companies has historically been the hard assets that they owned and controlled.

  

  James Surowiecki
  • Real
  • Value
  • Struggle

• I went through a lot of hard times. I went through a lot of struggle. A few times, I was in tears. It brought me to my knees just about.

  

  Keith Hernandez
  • Struggle
  • Tears

• We're all different; we all have our ways of understanding ourselves and the way we live our lives and struggle with our humanity.

  

  Blase J. Cupich
  • Different
  • Live
  • Understanding

• I believe Colorado needs representation from a conservative who has worked his way through the types of obstacles with which nearly all middle-class and lower-income people struggle.

  

  Darryl Glenn
  • People
  • Believe
  • Struggle

• There's a lot that is awful. That's the struggle of getting old. To make sure you don't let what's hard...obscure the beauty.

  

  Sara Zarr
  • Struggle
  • Awful
  • Obscure

• Reading a book, watching a movie, going to a play, it's transporting, and very, very exciting. And to be a part of that, creating things with your imagination, whoa.

  

  Steve Carell
  • Play
  • Creating
  • Watching

• It's nice to get your glad rags on for awards like the Baftas, but it doesn't happen all the time.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Time
  • Nice
  • Awards

• When I get "too busy" to pray, I envision Jesus at the Pearly Gates showing me the time I wasted looking for something to watch on Netflix.

  

  Mark Hart Crowded House
  • Time
  • Jesus
  • Pray

• There isn't really anybody who occupies the lens to the extent that Lindsay Lohan does. Something happens when she steps in front of the camera. There is this magnetic energy.

  

  Richard Phillips
  • Something
  • Happens
  • Camera

• What we all have to know is the struggle is long. It's long. It may not end in our lifetimes. But the struggle is what gives our lives meaning and purpose. I tell people to take time out of activism every day to take care of their bodies, to take care of their souls and spirits.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Struggle
  • Souls
  • Take Care