Eve Ensler Quotes
I think violence against women in America has become ordinary - it's been made absolutely acceptable.
Quotes to Explore
-
I buried Joel on our 48th anniversary. I had been with her since I was 16.
-
For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both.
-
'Hannity' had a a guy on that said, 'I fathered 20 kids by 14 mothers.' That is s cultural issue which has demeaned our society and has caused our society dearly in terms of imprisonment. Who's going to be the fathers to those children? Who's going to pay child support?
-
Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
-
I guess I'm a bit of a tomboy and can be quite resourceful.
-
On my first day at Yale Law School, there were posters in the hallways announcing an event with Tony Blair, the former British prime minister. I couldn't believe it: Tony Blair was speaking to a room of a few dozen students? If he came to Ohio State, he would have filled an auditorium of a thousand people.
-
War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
-
Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
-
When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
-
I don't want to get fat.
-
I'm very much in support of the free press, but the free press ought to be educational and informative. And I believe they have fallen down recently on that.
-
There used to be a time - it isn't so much the case now - that vegetarianism was some kind of religion, and either you belong or you don't belong.
-
I think I am staying in Toronto. It keeps me grounded and I can be with my family and friends.
-
Buddhists talk about nirvana in very much the same terms as monotheists describe God.
-
Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.
-
Of this story I can say that it came to me in an irresistible form, crying to be written. It will be accused perhaps of being a mere piece of sentimentality, but, as I saw it, it was a great deal more. If, therefore, it lacks the ring of sincerity, or even, of tragedy, the fault rests not with the theme but with my handling of it.
-
In brief, she is the partner to what primarily he creates; he is the visitor to what primarily she creates. To me, this wasn’t equality.
-
If you read a lot of books, you're considered well-read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well-viewed.
-
I think the best work flows out of a collaborative environment.
-
I think when you wear the brand anyway, why not go out and try to promote it and make it as cool as you can? The fact that I can continue to do what I've always done and kind of become the face of that brand is to me, kind of just makes sense. It doesn't make sense not to do it I guess.
-
What makes a woman beautiful is her loyalty to and her friendships with other women, and her honesty with men.
-
My answer to the racial problem in America is to not deal with it at all. The founding fathers dealt with it when they made the Constitution.
-
For the longest time, my older brother told me he was teaching me self-defense, but now that I'm grown up, I realize he was just practicing his martial arts on me.
-
I think violence against women in America has become ordinary - it's been made absolutely acceptable.
