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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'Extraordinary' is an original fairy tale, a contemporary story. But like a traditional fairy tale, it heads quickly into frightening, bloody territory. I am afraid for my book, as it goes out alone into the world, just as I was frightened for Phoebe as I wrote and rewrote her story.
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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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I love my job and I love my children. It's really about figuring out your schedules and getting everything down that you need to do and sticking to your plan.
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People ask me if I live each day like it's my last, and I don't. I live each day like it's my first, and I can't wait for the next one.
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T.S. Eliot's influence was enormous on my generation. Much more than Ezra Pound. I actually had to put T.S. Eliot books out of the house because my poetry was so influenced. Everything I wrote sounded like Eliot.
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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.
