Eve Ensler Quotes
The cancer in me became an awareness of the cancer that is everywhere. The cancer of cruelty, the cancer of carelessness, the cancer of greed.
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I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.
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People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.
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All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.
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When you are making an independent film, money is never an issue.
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The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.
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I like to eat right and in moderation, but give myself treats and kind of have everything.
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When I first went to New York I was right out of high school, I was 17 years old, and I had never seen a building over two stories high.
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When rough times have fallen upon our state in the past, Texans have always responded with generosity and an eagerness to help. The compassionate response to the fires has proven that this community spirit is alive and well.
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I wanted a child, and there was no way I could get pregnant under the stress of 18-hour work days and live TV. When you're somebody who's used to making a decision about what they want to do and getting it and achieving it, when your body fails you, it's a whole other experience.
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No cricket should be played for at least a month anywhere in the world after a World Cup.
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I would say old school cats like Redman and Wu-tang. My style is my style, those are just cats that I liked.
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I think the big thing is to talk about getting people working again and addressing the issues that are keeping small business from being able to grow.
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I can't say that the ending of a story is always the best part of the story, and yet there's sort of this implicit idea that the finale is somehow supposed to be the mind-blowing best episode of a show. The question is: Why is that? Why do people make that assumption?
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To be reverent is not just to be quiet. It involves an awareness of what is taking place. It involves a divine desire to learn and to be receptive to the promptings of the Spirit. It involves a striving to seek added light and knowledge.
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One characteristic that I hope I never relinquish is an intense curiosity about the world around me.
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History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
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Thankfully, gratefully, cancer did not get the best of me.
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I feel very passionate that we need CAT scanners in every country in the world. There's not a CAT scanner in all of eastern Congo. People don't use the word "cancer" because they don't get diagnosed. They just die.
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Thank God, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.
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Sometimes I think the playing field is certainly not even. You know, it's just not.
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God was dead. Let Him rest in peace. Now, finally, the earth was hers with no taint of Heaven.
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The cancer in me became an awareness of the cancer that is everywhere. The cancer of cruelty, the cancer of carelessness, the cancer of greed.
