Eve Ensler quotes - page 4

The only point of having power it seems to me is to empower others. The only point of leadership is to inspire. (Eve Ensler)
Three of the ten principles governing the City of Joy are (a) tell the truth, (b) stop waiting to be rescued, and (c) give away what you want the most. View quote
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People are more afraid to love than they are to kill. View quote
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Money doesn't make you special, it makes you lucky. Be generous, be crazy, be outrageous. View quote
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I have been a depressed person most of m life. I was always in the throes of self-hatred. View quote
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Real security is contemplating death, not pretending it doesn't exist. View quote
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The mechanism of violence is what destroys women, controls women, diminishes women and keeps women in their so-called place. View quote
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It is almost a guarantee that in the pursuit of security you will become more insecure. Inherent in the quest for security is its undoing. View quote
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I despise charity. It gives crumbs to a few and silences the others. View quote
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Once you are diagnosed with cancer, time changes. It both speeds up insanely and stops altogether. View quote
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I really want to help stop violence toward women. (Eve Ensler)
Today the United States has the highest prison population in the world, over 2.1 million people. ... We lock people up at a rate that is seven to ten times that of any other democracy. View quote
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Anorexia was my attempt to have control over my body and manipulate my body and starve my body and shape my body. It was not a very good relationship. It was the sort of relationship my father had to my body. It was a tyrannical, "you'll do what I tell you" relationship. View quote
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People didn't feel so much shame around it and that they didn't feel so much humiliation around it. And the other thing that people have given me a lot of feedback about - something I'm very excited about - is all the stuff around chemo as an "empathetic warrior." View quote
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It's a weird thing about the truth: It protects you. What really makes you vulnerable is when you're lying because you're going to get caught. When you tell the truth, there's a strange relief that comes. View quote
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I'm a nomad. I have a place in New York in the Flatiron District, and I have a place in Paris in Ile Saint-Louis, and I spend a lot of time in Congo. View quote
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People think that when you're connected with other people it's more painful. The opposite is true. When you're connected to the river you have despair, but you also have joy, and there's a flow in the river. View quote
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Why are women immobile? Because so many feel like they're waiting for someone to say, 'You're good, you're pretty, I give you permission.' View quote
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