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

• I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Time
  • Pregnant
  • Even

• 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

• When I read, I take notes and underline things. So reading is a vigorous process for me, but I read in bed. My poor husband is trying to go to sleep, and I'm reaching over him to get the Post-it notes.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Trying
  • Reading
  • Sleep

• 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

• I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Think
  • Way
  • Just

• Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Money
  • Friendship
  • Keep

• People have crossed the Himalayas in flip-flops seeking a blessing from the Dalai Lama.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • People
  • Blessing
  • Dalai Lama

• 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

• There's this Method Man album called 'Tical.' It's his first album. I would just listen to that every day, because the album feels like, if it were a film, it would be black and white. It feels like there's a war percolating throughout the album itself. It's dark, and it has a nice forward pace to it.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • War
  • Black
  • Nice

• 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

• There will always be those people who are just backward and ignorant. There will always be those people. They need somebody to feel superior to.

  

  Janis Ian
  • People

• Part of me misses the days when we have four channels in England and we were all talking about everything all the time.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Time
  • Missing

• There is no central government database that allows officials to monitor water tests by local systems.

  

  Charles Duhigg
  • Water

• It ain't like we're curing cancer or anything, we're watching basketball.

  

  Charles Barkley
  • Cancer
  • Basketball

• 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