Eve Ensler Quotes
I think violence against women in America has become ordinary - it's been made absolutely acceptable.
Eve Ensler
Quotes to Explore
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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.
Barbara Kingsolver
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I think I am staying in Toronto. It keeps me grounded and I can be with my family and friends.
Dakota Goyo
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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.
Walter Dean Myers
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Buddhists talk about nirvana in very much the same terms as monotheists describe God.
Karen Armstrong
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Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.
Youssou N'Dour
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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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I come from the Midwest, from the suburbs - growing up hanging out at the mall and looking at the corn fields across the street. I kind of was embarrassed by it for a long time. Then I decided, 'Hey, if everyone else can embrace their homeland and where they're from, I can do the same!'
Alice Ripley
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Fences would be a hindrance to terrorists should they decide to come across a land border between the U.S. and Mexico and to California.
Duncan Hunter
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You can play women who have a face on or who zip something up, but you have to dig deeper to actually find the humanity and real aspects.
Jessie Buckley
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Every time you go to an airport and get on a plane, you are basically taking advantage of the work that was done at Langley. Between World War I and World War II, they did just tremendous amount of fundamental research into basically making airplanes safer, making them more stable.
Margot Lee Shetterly
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I shuddered to think how completely the insane were in the power of their keepers, and how one could weep and plead for release, and all of no avail, if the keepers were so minded.
Nellie Bly
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I think violence against women in America has become ordinary - it's been made absolutely acceptable.
Eve Ensler
