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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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.
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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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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.
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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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Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.
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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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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.
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Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work?
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We will be protected by the great men and women of our military and law enforcement and, most importantly, we are protected by God.
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I'm obviously all for women's lib.
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What's interesting is that both men and women are struggling with this issue in remarkably similar percentages, but the big difference is that women tend to talk about this when men keep it silent.
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The word is like an object - we were thinking "bloom," "doom." It encapsulated tons: the bloom, the end of the bloom, and then coming back the next year.
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I think violence against women in America has become ordinary - it's been made absolutely acceptable.
