Eve Ensler Quotes
Our bodies are critical. If I learned anything from getting really bad cancer seven years ago, it's that your body is what you've got. If you don't take care of it, you're not going to be here.
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I have a lot of breast cancer history on my mother's side of the family.
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Man's shortcomings and sins are all due to substance of the body and not to its form, while all his merits are exclusively due to his form.
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Perhaps one of the most important things you can do for human beings is wean them off an animal-based diet. It hardens the arteries and runs up our health-care costs. The last thing a poor person can afford is a heart attack or cancer or a stroke. And that's all linked to a meat-based diet. I think animal liberation is human liberation.
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I think I've always had a 40-year-old body, and now that I'm actually there I'm like, 'Hey, pretty good, huh?'
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Elements and birthdays have been intertwined for me since boyhood, when I learned about atomic numbers.
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Until I was diagnosed with mouth cancer, I'd never heard of it.
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My body is a vehicle for the mechanics of my sport.
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One of the things I was so glad that happened to me on Knots was that I learned to relax.
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I am not the perishable body, but the eternal Self.
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I'm more interested in having a place to work out my voice and my body than I am in having furniture.
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On the landscape crew, I learned a lot from the other workers. We treated everybody equally, and we worked hard.
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My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for it.
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Maybe I should mention it: I was not from the beginning mainly interested in papilloma virus; I was mainly interested in infectious agents in human cancer. So papilloma viruses came up as the most likely candidate from my viewpoint.
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I don't know if hep C is called 'the quiet killer,' but it easily could be, so unnoticeably does it nestle into your body before crankin' up the screws and letting you race to figure out what's going on.
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Your body has something in the neighborhood of 40 trillion cells - quite a consulting committee. Call on it when you're confused or undecided. Relax quietly and ask your body what it has to say.
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Social justice is a cancer. Social justice means you are ruled by whatever the mob does. What social justice does is destroy individual responsibility.
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I've learned not to be as maniacal as I used to be.
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Cancer is the ugliest, scariest, most dreaded word in the English language. My credentials for saying so? Head-to-head, firsthand close encounters with different versions of the fiendish devil.
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Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams.
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As time went on, I did campaign to lighten the character a little bit, to introduce some romance into the episodes, outside activities, horse riding and fencing and mountaineering.
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I always found the appeal to the market gods a bit odd. Why would the market fix mistakes instead of aggravating them?
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What do you call a bad man? The sort of man who admires innocence.
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Our bodies are critical. If I learned anything from getting really bad cancer seven years ago, it's that your body is what you've got. If you don't take care of it, you're not going to be here.
