Eve Ensler Quotes

When you rape, beat, maim, mutilate, burn, bury, and terrorize women, you destroy the essential life energy on the planet.

Eve Ensler

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• You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Up
  • Small
  • Know

• I was just taking pictures to see what they looked like. Just for the fun of it. It wasn't about anything in some cases. Some of them were just about the joy of opening up an aperture and seeing what shows up.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Joy

• You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Good
  • Why
  • Creativity

• I adore Eddie Kaye Thomas and Jason Biggs. Eddie was the only one who called me when they were doing 'American Reunion' and told me, 'You need to do this.'

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • American
  • Me
  • Told

• I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Real

• I've got ten pairs of trainers. That's one for every day of the week.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Week

• I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it makes me supremely happy to work with people and to talk and invent and laugh.

  

  Yael Stone
  • People
  • Work
  • Happy

• There are epic downsides to living a somewhat public life. The upshot of that is there's nothing to hide. It's a relief in a way. There's nothing about me that can't be said.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Life
  • Way
  • Hide

• Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Control
  • Very
  • Machine

• I definitely look up to Veronica Roth, Suzanne Collins, and J.K. Rowling.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Up
  • Look
  • Definitely

• I don't know how to cook and there's so much work involved you have to buy the groceries and prepare them. I like it when people cook for me, or I'll just order some take-out.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • People
  • Work
  • Know

• Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Deep
  • Friendship
  • Roots

• The great thing about getting older is that you become more mellow. Things aren't as black and white, and you become much more tolerant. You can see the good in things much more easily rather than getting enraged as you used to do when you were young.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Good
  • Great
  • Black

• We don't have any power other than our intellect and our hearts.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Power
  • Hearts
  • Other

• I'm a big routine guy. I have to have everything in threes.

  

  Sam Bradford
  • Guy
  • Everything
  • Big

• Either you live by the barometer of the music critics, or you live by your own. I choose the latter.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Live
  • Choose

• Every day, I kind of have in my brain a few slots of what I want to do. Like school, sleep, homework, 'Rookie,' hanging out with friends, mindless relaxation time, and then trying to do my own creative things.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Time
  • Trying
  • School

• The epic poet collaborates with the spirit of his time in the composition of his work. That is, if he is successful; the time may refuse to work with him, but he may not refuse to work with his time.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Time
  • Work
  • May

• Directing first film was terrified, it was really very scary because there is a lot of responsibility. I think I was terrified because I wanted it to work so much. A lot of actors direct movies but I thought the stakes were kind of higher for me because I really, really cared. I just worked as hard as I possibly could on every single thing, every single day. I said that if this failed it would not be because I didn't work as hard as I possibly could...every day.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Work
  • Single
  • Responsibility

• At 52 and unaltered, people tell me I look good for my age. This is not the same as being told you're beautiful.

  

  Paulina Porizkova
  • People
  • Good
  • Age

• I cut my hair myself and colour it. I know everybody in the hairdressing business despairs of me, but it's so much easier to do it yourself.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Business
  • Hair

• If you choose to take a path in life, don't blame other people for the path you've chosen to take.

  

  Bernard Sumner New Order
  • People
  • Life
  • Path

• Alaskans deserve a fighter in the United States Senate who will always stand up for Alaska, who understands our great potential, who has the experience, respect and seniority to accomplish that. I am that senator.

  

  Lisa Murkowski
  • Up
  • Great
  • Experience

• When you rape, beat, maim, mutilate, burn, bury, and terrorize women, you destroy the essential life energy on the planet.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Energy
  • Destroy
  • Rape