Eve Ensler Quotes

If you look at capitalism and patriarchy, they're both such hierarchical, competitive, oneupmanship systems. They've trained us all to think that power means having all the goods or having the most money or having the most attention or having the most fame. That's not the power that interests me. Actually, the deconstruction of that power is what interests me.

Eve Ensler

• Money
• Attention
• Interests
• Patriarchy
• Deconstruction

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• To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Best
  • Circumstances

• I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Good
  • Family
  • Happy

• I have learned to take the part of me that is very fearful and work on that. There is space for that in my life. I have learned to give myself a bit more freedom between 'action' and 'cut.' I come by all that fear honestly, like most humans have. I can't bring it with me to work, so in that way, the work feels quite liberating.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Life
  • Work
  • Freedom

• I love accents. It's a great way to separate yourself when playing a role.

  

  Gary Carr
  • Great
  • Playing
  • Role

• I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.

  

  Ted McGinley
  • Said
  • Genius
  • Hollywood

• I love doing voice-over. It's one of my favorite things.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Love
  • Doing
  • Favorite

• I always loved art shows at schools. My friends with kids would go, and I would go with them. It's some of my favorite art... It's more about creativity than the grand statement of an agenda.

  

  Beck
  • Art
  • Kids
  • Friends

• It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • People
  • Growing
  • Turn

• Making a book is such a big enterprise.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Book
  • Big
  • Enterprise

• It was so strange. I knew that Josephine Baker had performed on the same stage but that night I felt it. Many of the same people who worked with Josephine Baker are still here. They know what they're doing. And that was a very comfortable feeling.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • People
  • Night
  • Feeling

• For those, like me, who can't rely on being given a home smoker this Christmas, you can build your own approximation with just a roll of tin foil and a big wok or pan for which you have a lid.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Home
  • Me
  • Christmas

• Die ganzen Zahlen hat der liebe Gott gemacht, alles andere ist Menschenwerk.

  

  Leopold Kronecker
  • Die

• I feel better in my body now than when I was 20. Why not?

  

  Emmanuelle Beart
  • Why

• The investor world that looks at studios as part of media companies will say that the studio business is supposed to be erratic. Not at our company. Not at Time Warner.

  

  Jeff Bewkes
  • Time
  • World
  • Business

• I keep lip gloss everywhere. It always makes me feel like I am slightly put together.

  

  Angela Kinsey
  • Together

• I wanted to let my employees know what will come if they make the wrong choice. They need to worry if Obama gets reelected.

  

  David A. Siegel
  • Worry

• One tries to be an observer as an actor and indeed as a director because the small things, the give-away things are what are really interesting to a performer.

  

  Janet Suzman
  • Small
  • Interesting

• I love to photograph people in their own environment. It offers clues to what's important in their lives.

  

  Mary Ellen Mark
  • People
  • Important
  • Environment

• If I had to give up reading or give up listening to music, I suspect I'd stick with the music.

  

  Charles Frazier
  • Up
  • Music
  • Reading

• When I had my first experiences of choral singing, the dissonance of those close harmonies was so exquisite that I would giggle or I would tear up, and I felt it in a physical way.

  

  Eric Whitacre
  • Up
  • Singing

• My all-time favourite political promise - more a boast than a promise, really - came from former Montreal mayor Jean Drapeau, who said in the lead-up to the 1976 Olympics, 'The Olympics can no more lose money than a man can have a baby.'

  

  Martin O'Malley
  • Up
  • Time
  • Money

• I remember the first book I bought, when I was about 11... Dad said, 'What have you got that for? What are libraries for?'

  

  Kenneth Branagh
  • Book
  • Remember
  • Dad

• If you look at capitalism and patriarchy, they're both such hierarchical, competitive, oneupmanship systems. They've trained us all to think that power means having all the goods or having the most money or having the most attention or having the most fame. That's not the power that interests me. Actually, the deconstruction of that power is what interests me.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Money
  • Attention
  • Interests