Eve Ensler Quotes
The minute someone tells you you have cancer, it's kind of like you die. You really do die. It's like you get that you're mortal.
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I've gone through stages where I hate my body so much that I won't even wear shorts and a bra in my house because if I pass a mirror, that's the end of my day.
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We have to stop rewarding bad behavior.
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I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.
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'Extraordinary' is an original fairy tale, a contemporary story. But like a traditional fairy tale, it heads quickly into frightening, bloody territory. I am afraid for my book, as it goes out alone into the world, just as I was frightened for Phoebe as I wrote and rewrote her story.
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I don't weigh into politics.
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I've not sat with my agent going: 'Where is the next hopeless girl I can play?' They just come along.
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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
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When you realize that the uncut 'Porgy and Bess' started me off, that I'd have the opportunity to do a ton of 'Stoppard,' 'Hairspray,' that I'm able to do 'Il Trittico' at the Met – how do I top that?
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Growing up, me and my brother, we were kind of exact opposites. We were completely yin and yang. He was more rough and tumble, and I just wanted to play with my girlfriends.
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I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so warm. A lot of modern digital videotape, it's just too bright. Don't know why, it's not warm.
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College professors used to be badly paid and worth it. Colleges used to be modest institutions; they should go back to being modest institutions.
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To be reverent is not just to be quiet. It involves an awareness of what is taking place. It involves a divine desire to learn and to be receptive to the promptings of the Spirit. It involves a striving to seek added light and knowledge.
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I'm crazy, but I'm not stupid.
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The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. It's like a cancer that's metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?
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To divinise is human, to humanise is divine.
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• Hazing is both testing and training to subordinate self to the team.
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Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies, and will enable him to feel that he may be in the right when the world is against him.
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Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions.
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What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?
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Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
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We'd been living in the Arkansas Ozarks, then the Missouri Ozarks, because it is so inexpensive and does have natural wonders, but we shuffled things and moved to San Francisco, the corner of Dashiell Hammett and Pine.
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Never been to Sesame Street but I flip a Big Bird. And I know "stealers" and they not from Pittsburgh.
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The minute someone tells you you have cancer, it's kind of like you die. You really do die. It's like you get that you're mortal.
