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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If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war.
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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 love developing children as characters. Children rarely have important roles in literary fiction - they are usually defined as cute or precious, or they create a plot by being kidnapped or dying.
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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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I was teased if I brought my books home. I would take a paper bag to the library and put the books in the bag and bring them home. Not that I was that concerned about them teasing me - because I would hit them in a heartbeat. But I felt a little ashamed, having books.
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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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The book is silent as long as you need silence, eloquent whenever you want discourse. He never interrupts you if you are engaged but if you feel lonely he will be a good companion. He is a friend who never deceives or falters you, and he is a companion who does not grow tired of you.
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And perhaps this has to do with what I sense is a turning away from the idea of religion as being about conserving a certain heritage from the past towards religion as having to do with how we orientate ourselves to the future, to all we truly long for, to hope.
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I'm excited to see the growth in women's cycling, and I think the Women's Tour has had a really positive impact on that change.
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Because I have success, it doesn't mean I'm part of the mainstream. I'm still an outsider.
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I think violence against women in America has become ordinary - it's been made absolutely acceptable.
