Eve Ensler Quotes

The fact that women have been moving forward, that a woman was running for president, that we had a black president - I think there was, without a doubt, a whitelash and a complete backlash against the liberation of women, against the power of people of color.

Eve Ensler

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• Power
• President
• Liberation

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• Despite the obvious benefits, many Americans do not like Texas. Some even say they despise Texas, and make no secret of their feelings.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Feelings
  • Say
  • Texas

• I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Up
  • Give
  • Finished

• You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.

  

  Adam Arkin
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Isolation

• Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.

  

  Adam Lamberg
  • Time
  • Different
  • You

• I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • She
  • Book
  • Remember

• My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know that about you', but that's part of my charm.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • People
  • Friends
  • Reading

• Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don't know why this one is different, but it is. You don't know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can't stop thinking about it.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Great
  • Different
  • Thinking

• Across the Atlantic, in the scattered, far-flung, rural settlements of colonial America, hospitality had become a central concern, and hostesses, like peacocks displaying their iridescent plumage, tried to outdo one another with their creative food displays.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • America
  • Food
  • Creative

• If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Up
  • Been
  • Line

• We want to be able to sell you anything, anywhere, any time you want it.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Time
  • Want
  • You

• I love blues. My grandfather did blues.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Grandfather
  • Blues
  • Did

• Yes, sir, I was in the processing room watching them actually process the film.

  

  Abraham Zapruder
  • Film
  • Process
  • Watching

• I've lived a charmed life. I married the only girl I ever loved and did the only job I ever loved.

  

  Hank Stram
  • Life
  • Job
  • Girl

• When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Try
  • Politicians
  • Cease

• Everybody is somebody, so you don't have to introduce anybody.

  

  Vartan Gregorian
  • You
  • Somebody
  • Introduce

• I happen to be privileged enough to be in on the fact that we have been visited on this planet, and the UFO phenomenon is real.

  

  Edgar Mitchell
  • Real
  • Enough
  • Happen

• When you're put in a position to really affect young people who are going to run the world one day, if you're able to be in their life at a young age and make a positive impact, I think that's a beautiful thing.

  

  Zendaya
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• One of the things I love about writing is the way you can use what you know and what you've experienced, without actually writing about yourself. I've given many of my experiences and perceptions to many of the characters in the book, but none of them is me.

  

  Kate Grenville
  • Book
  • Know
  • Characters

• I never hear the word 'escape' Without a quicker blood, A sudden expectation, A flying attitude.I never hear of prisons broad By soldiers battered down, But I tug childish at my bars,- Only to fail again!

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Attitude
  • Flying
  • Expectation

• Nobody would put as little thought and effort into buying an automobile as they put into deciding who to elect as President of the United States.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Effort
  • President
  • Buying

• I come from a theater background, so usually, at the start, you know what happens and where the character goes and everything. But with TV, it's really unpredictable.

  

  Kimiko Glenn
  • Character

• Well, we knew that we wanted to tell a story that made bold choices, and one of those bold choices was meeting a storm trooper and seeing who this person was. That's something that had never been done.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Done
  • Choices
  • Storm

• I feel like one thing that a lot of creative people go through is that they feel like they don't have the right to be creative or to put their stuff out there. I'm glad that blogging from a young age kind of got that out of the way for me.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Way
  • Right

• The fact that women have been moving forward, that a woman was running for president, that we had a black president - I think there was, without a doubt, a whitelash and a complete backlash against the liberation of women, against the power of people of color.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Women
  • Power
  • President