Eve Ensler Quotes

I think the greatest illusion we have is that denial protects us. It's actually the biggest distortion and lie. In fact, staying asleep is what's killing us.

Eve Ensler

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Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.

Sally Pearson
- People
- Done
- Parents
I often say fame is kind of like a drug or like sugar: when it's controlling you it doesn't feel good at all.

K. D. Lang
- Good
- Kind
- Drug
The United Nations would probably have to rest on two pillars: one constituted by an assembly of equal executive representatives of individual countries, resembling the present plenary, and the other consisting of a group elected directly by the globe's population in which the number of delegates representing individual nations would, thus, roughly correspond to the size of the nations.

Vaclav Havel
- Rest
- Present
- Population
The threat of nuclear war isn't nearly as important as the threat of the destruction of our resource base which sustains us.

Gaylord Nelson
- Important
- War
- Threat
As a species, we tend to lie quite a bit - to ourselves and to each other. It's a primate thing. So, a reason to go into a career in science and technology, or to learn more about these subjects, is to become a more powerful person.

Ann Druyan
Over your breasts of motionless current, over your legs of firmness and water, over the permanence and the pride of your naked hair I want to be, my love, now that the tears are thrown into the raucous baskets where they accumulate, I want to be, my love, alone with a syllable of mangled silver, alone with a tip of your breast of snow.

Pablo Neruda
- Alone
- Water
- Hair