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.

Eve Ensler

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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.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • House
  • Hate
  • Day

• We have to stop rewarding bad behavior.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Bad
  • Stop
  • Behavior

• I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • College
  • King
  • Students

• '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.

  

  Nancy Werlin
  • World
  • Book
  • Alone

• I don't weigh into politics.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Politics
  • Weigh

• I've not sat with my agent going: 'Where is the next hopeless girl I can play?' They just come along.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Girl
  • I Can
  • Hopeless

• Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Money
  • Friendship
  • Keep

• 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?

  

  Jack O'Brien
  • Opportunity
  • Realize
  • Top

• 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.

  

  Candis Cayne
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Me

• 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.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Why
  • Think
  • Attention

• College professors used to be badly paid and worth it. Colleges used to be modest institutions; they should go back to being modest institutions.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • College
  • Back
  • Worth

• 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.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Knowledge
  • Light
  • Desire

• I'm crazy, but I'm not stupid.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Crazy
  • Stupid

• 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?

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • People
  • Why
  • Question

• To divinise is human, to humanise is divine.

  

  Victor Hugo

• • Hazing is both testing and training to subordinate self to the team.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Team
  • Training

• 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.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • World
  • May
  • Power

• We should see dreaming as one of our responsibilitie s, rather than an alternative to one.

  

  Mary Elizabeth Lease
  • Dreaming
  • Alternative
  • Responsibilitie

• It was ages ago in life's first wonder I found you, Virgilia, wild sea-heart; And 'twas ages ago that we went asunder, Ages and worlds apart.Your luminous face and your hair's dark glory, I knew them of old by an ocean-stream, In a far, first world now turned to story, Now faded back to dream.

  

  Edwin Markham
  • Life
  • World
  • Heart

• I've been bragging for over 25 years that my first New York Times bestseller was a book I copied from the U.S. Government Printing Office!

  

  Matthew Lesko
  • Book

• All the political movements of our country that have hitherto played any important role in our modern history had been lacking in the ideal at the achievement of which they aimed. Revolutionary movement is no exception.

  

  Bhagat Singh
  • Important
  • Country
  • History

• It felt as if my body was, like, literally betraying me because I went from a very athletic, straight-up-and-down little kid to a very curvaceous woman, and it was just horrifying to me.

  

  Chaz Bono
  • Up

• 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.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Die
  • Cancer
  • Mortal