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

• I think it's very helpful having Twitter and all that. I mainly talk about work on Twitter. I keep my personal life separate from my work life, but I think it helps because everybody's on the Internet now - everybody has Facebook; everybody has Twitter.

  

  Taylor Spreitler
  • Life
  • Work
  • Think

• 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

• There are some who become spies for money, or out of vanity and megalomania, or out of ambition, or out of a desire for thrills. But the malady of our time is of those who become spies out of idealism.

  

  Max Lerner
  • Desire
  • Ambition
  • Spy

• Where would we go If we didn’t have sorrow and death?

  

  Olav H. Hauge
  • Death
  • Sorrow
  • Where

• To me, chocolate was the sole reason we on this earth.

  

  Esi Edugyan
  • Earth
  • Reason
  • Chocolate

• I never have, above my signature, announced anything that I did not prove first. That is the reason why no statement of mine was ever contradicted, and I do not think it will be, because whenever I publish something I go through it first by experiment, then from experiment I calculate, and when I have the theory and practice meet I announce the results.

  

  Nikola Tesla
  • Prove
  • Theory
  • Experiment

• Every single day I wake up and commit myself to becoming a better player. Some days it happens, and some days it doesn't. Sure, there are games I'm going to dominate and there are going to be games when I struggle. But it doesn't mean I give up.

  

  Mia Hamm
  • Mean
  • Player
  • Struggle

• 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