Eve Ensler Quotes
We can't walk where we want to walk or be who we want to be or dress the way we want to dress or go anywhere any time of day. I am talking about the freedom that comes with just knowing that you're okay, and that you have value and you have identity, and you don't have to keep proving yourself.
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I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that.
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I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
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I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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I am just one human being.
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If I wanted to know what a certain future would feel like to me, I would find someone who is already living that future. If I wonder what it's like to become a lawyer or marry a busy executive or eat at a particular restaurant, my best bet is to find people who have actually done these things and see how happy they are.
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When you have that long, flowing hair, you feel different - when you cut it, the framing of your face changes immediately.
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Figure out who you are.
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Trans people deserve something vital; they deserve your respect. From that respect comes a more compassionate community.
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People want to see something that isn't necessarily somebody walking around in a superhero costume.
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I know I'm as comfortable doing period as I am contemporary. I suppose we grow up with it in a sense, in the theater. We get to put on costumes and play a lot of period dramas or plays so we're exposed to it a little bit more I think because of our theatrical background.
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Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country?
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The gap between being a bad person and being a criminal is often wide.
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Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.
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We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life.
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Requiring governments to make all publicly held information and data available to people - thus giving citizens a powerful tool to expose corruption - is just one aspect of the accountability revolution that can be unleashed if the report’s recommendations are implemented in full.
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Lovers lying two and twoAsk not whom they sleep beside,And the bridegroom all night throughNever turns him to the bride.
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Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.
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Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly.
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Hip-hop definitely taught me a lot. Having to create your own identity and become known and respected in a male-dominated field - it requires some guts. There are times you have to be strong, and times when you have to stand alone for what you believe in.
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To keep that absolute freedom we cannot be obliged to anyone.
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Identity itself should be not a smug label or a gold medal but a revolution.
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In leading-edge companies like Google and Apple, workers are given much freedom and opportunity to play. They know that's an important component of creating new and better products. I believe that at whatever level of work, cashier at a supermarket, janitor at an airport, aide in a cubicle, the addition of a playful attitude makes the job better and the work more enjoyable. A cashier or janitor who smiles and is friendly gets a better response than a surly one.
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We can't walk where we want to walk or be who we want to be or dress the way we want to dress or go anywhere any time of day. I am talking about the freedom that comes with just knowing that you're okay, and that you have value and you have identity, and you don't have to keep proving yourself.
