Eve Ensler Quotes

The only point of having power it seems to me is to empower others. The only point of leadership is to inspire.

Eve Ensler

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• All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Education
  • Afraid

• The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Real
  • Why

• Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.

  

  Jack Adams
  • Pretty
  • Well
  • Everybody

• We have to tell people who need help that it's OK to ask for it.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • People
  • Help
  • Need

• Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

  

  Ovid
  • Heart
  • You
  • Soft

• I've been on sets my whole life.

  

  Jack Quaid
  • Life
  • Been
  • Sets

• I think there are so many phenomenal runners. I grew up watching Cathy Freeman, Kelly Holmes, and Michael Johnson, so I'd say they are my favourites.

  

  Laura Robson
  • Up
  • Think
  • Say

• The British tend to shy away from the spotlight. We don't like being singled out in any way, and I think that is something which is important for me to learn to do.

  

  Damon Hill
  • Important
  • Me
  • Learn

• The self is just our operation center, our consciousness, our moral compass. So, if we want to act more effectively in the world, we have to get to know ourselves better.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • World
  • Moral
  • Self

• I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Best
  • Satisfied
  • Tastes

• I always follow the same idea: Start small and disrupt to create something big.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Small
  • Idea
  • Start

• Entrepreneurship is really hard and painful - I'm not sure I'd recommend it for anyone who can't handle the extreme stress.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Stress
  • Entrepreneurship

• I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Women
  • Power
  • Think

• Standing up to Ahmadinejad is not a partisan issue and should never be one.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Up
  • Never
  • Should

• I don't listen to the news. I don't read the newspaper unless it's eccentric information - and the obituaries, of course.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Information
  • News
  • Newspaper

• Losing my daughter was a very serious pain. There was always some empty space in my heart.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Heart
  • Space
  • Pain

• Cause when you're fifteenAnd somebody tells you they love you,you're gonna believe them.And when you're fifteen,Feeling like there's nothing to figure out,Well count to ten, take it in.This is life before you knowWho you're gonna be,You're fifteen.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Feeling

• Any organism must be treated as-a-whole; in other words, that an organism is not an algebraic sum, a linear function of its elements, but always more than that. It is seemingly little realized, at present, that this simple and innocent-looking statement involves a full structural revision of our language...

  

  Alfred Korzybski
  • Words
  • Simple
  • Present

• The crest and crowning of all good,Life’s final star, is Brotherhood; For it will bring again to Earth Her long-lost Poesy and Mirth; Will send new light on every face, A kingly power upon the race. And till it come, we men are slaves, And travel downward to the dust of graves.

  

  Edwin Markham
  • Life
  • Good
  • Men

• Civil movements and riots are as old as human civilization. Long before Twitter was created, mobilization of the discontented was mouth-to-mouth, or even by 'smoke signals' to gather the uprising against established political power.

  

  Eduardo Paes
  • Long
  • Power
  • Political

• Shall we now give up the independence we have won, and crusade abroad in a utopian attempt to force our ideas on the rest of the world; or shall we use air power, and the other advances of modern warfare, to guard and strengthen the independence of our nation?

  

  Charles Lindbergh
  • Up
  • World
  • Power

• I didn't think that college math was for me. I didn't think I'd be able to hack it. And that perception of math not being for girls, not being for girls who see themselves as socially well adjusted has got to change.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Change
  • College
  • Perception

• Well, you could take several stories off the buildings of most U.S. government agencies and we'd all probably be better for it too.

  

  John Bolton

• The only point of having power it seems to me is to empower others. The only point of leadership is to inspire.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Power
  • Leadership
  • Inspire