Eve Ensler Quotes

It really occurred to me at a certain point: women have not been embodied. Feminism has not been embodied. It hasn't gotten into us in a way where it is so undeniable that there is nothing to prove. Do you know what I mean? That we are so in our feminist skin, so to speak, that we are that world now.

Eve Ensler

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• Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.

  

  Yul Brynner
  • You
  • Feel
  • Dead

• In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even if they are inhabited by demons that can also play tricks on them.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Freedom
  • Ideas
  • Vision

• Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Always
  • Island
  • Hawaii

• What Christ gives us is quite explicit if his own words are interpreted according to their Aramaic meaning. The expression 'This is my Body' means this is myself.

  

  Karl Rahner
  • Words
  • Myself
  • Meaning

• I like challenging parts, something I haven't done yet, something that scares me. There's just a feeling I get when I read a script that I love, I feel an attachment to it, a yearning to play that character.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Character
  • Feeling
  • Like

• I will never give up my dream of being a prima ballerina and backup dancer for Justin Timberlake!

  

  Haley Webb
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Never

• Probably what my comment meant was that I don't care about the circumstances if I can tell the truth.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Truth
  • Care
  • Circumstances

• My husband and I have been involved with foster youth since our early 20s. Right out of college and not yet married, we spent weekends mentoring a family of young girls.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Family
  • College
  • Husband

• Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • May
  • Silence
  • Speech

• It is fast becoming an article of political faith that financing America's public schools by way of the local property tax is a shame and a civic scandal.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • America
  • Political
  • Faith

• If you look at one of the basic underlying tenets of liberty, it's freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom to access of information. If we start sequestering that and blocking it off, you're going to have pockets around the world that are going to become more and more isolated.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Start

• We must work-in the words of New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton-to really see each other. Perhaps the reason we struggle as a nation is because we’ve come to see only what we represent, at face value, instead of who we are. We simply must see the people we serve.

  

  James Comey
  • People
  • Work
  • Words

• Everything does go in a circle.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Circles

• Independence was a big, big thing for me. I saw my voice as a way out - when my parents fought, I'd run up to my room, put on The Sound of Music, open the window and sing out. My voice was my escape.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Up
  • Music
  • Parents

• If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • World
  • God
  • Heart

• I like eating out. I like buying beautiful paintings and being surrounded by beautiful things. I have to finance that life. I can barely afford a pension scheme because I don't make enough money.

  

  Andrew Motion
  • Life
  • Money
  • Beautiful

• In manufacturing, where mechanization and the use of chemical processes are much easier, it is easier to raise productivity than in services. In contrast, by their very nature, many service activities are inherently impervious to productivity increase without diluting the quality of the product.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Nature
  • Quality
  • Service

• Finally, mutually, and completely, they released all doubts, abandoned all fears, unwilling and unable to deny this overpowering love.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Doubt
  • True Love
  • Abandoned

• The PlayStation 2 is a historic, a mass-market appliance that fundamentally changes society in the way the printing press did.

  

  Trip Hawkins
  • PlayStation 2
  • Changes
  • Printing press

• I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Freedom
  • Me
  • Right

• Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die

  

  William Cowper
  • Quality
  • Sick
  • Lying

• Which is worth more, a crowd of thousands, or your own genuine solitude? Freedom, or power over an entire nation? A little while alone in your room will prove more valuable than anything else that could ever be given you.

  

  Rumi
  • Alone
  • Prove
  • Anything

• It really occurred to me at a certain point: women have not been embodied. Feminism has not been embodied. It hasn't gotten into us in a way where it is so undeniable that there is nothing to prove. Do you know what I mean? That we are so in our feminist skin, so to speak, that we are that world now.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Prove
  • Feminism
  • Embodied