Eve Ensler Quotes
I think violence against women in America has become ordinary - it's been made absolutely acceptable.
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I buried Joel on our 48th anniversary. I had been with her since I was 16.
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'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?
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Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
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I guess I'm a bit of a tomboy and can be quite resourceful.
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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.
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War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
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Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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I don't want to get fat.
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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.
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I think I am staying in Toronto. It keeps me grounded and I can be with my family and friends.
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Buddhists talk about nirvana in very much the same terms as monotheists describe God.
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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.
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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.
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I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework
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A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral regions and so-called backward peoples.
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Philadelphians continue to benefit every day from the flow of federal dollars to improve our infrastructure and create jobs.
Chaka Fattah -
What I am is a thinking, feeling human being compelled by history.
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The Bosnian Genocide was something that triggered my consciousness and led to an awakening politically for me.
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In America, we've set up a system whereby when you take on college debt, you will never have to pay more than 10 percent of your income in repayments. And what that will do is make sure that you will never be prevented from going to school just because of money. We want to make sure that you and others like you can succeed.
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Just to have the opportunity to play an American in America is a dream come true for me.
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I can't tell you what will happen over the next four years. But I can only stand here tonight, as a wife, a mother, a grandmother, an American, and make you this solemn commitment: This man will not fail. This man will not let us down. This man will lift up America!
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The blues is celebration, because when you take sorrow and turn it into music, you transform it.
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I think violence against women in America has become ordinary - it's been made absolutely acceptable.
