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Eve Ensler Quotes

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.'

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: playwright
Nationality: american
Birth: May 25, 1953

Topics

Good Women Waiting Feel Someone You

I pretty much drink a cup of coffee, write in my journal for a while, and then sit at a computer in my office and torture the keys. My one saving grace as a writer is that, if I'm having trouble with the novel I'm writing, I write something else, a poem or a short story. I try to avoid writer's block by always writing something.

Coffee Grace Writing Story Short

Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result.

Fear Confidence Great Intelligence

In my experience, if people don't have a sense of humor, they are usually not very good scientists, either.

Good Humor Experience People Sense

I was one of the first women partners at my law firm, the first woman in my Minnesota prosecutor job, and the first woman elected from my state to the Senate. So advice from women who had done similar things was important for me.

Women Job Woman Me Law Advice

My first undertaking in the way of scientific experiment was in the field of economics and psychology.

Economics Way First Psychology Field

When I write a song and come up with an arrangement and a vocal part, it's always a challenge trying to find a singer who can interpret it sort of the way that I hear it, and it's a very difficult thing to do. I mean, singing is like playing an instrument - everybody does it a little bit different - singing maybe even more so.

Challenge Singing Song Trying Find

A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death.

Robert Benchley

Family Death Nothing Try Real Out

I say to the women out there, remember how difficult it was for women like Justice O'Connor starting out. Even though she graduated with top grades, she had to take a job as a legal secretary. Remember how far we have come.

Maryanne Trump Barry

Women Justice Job Legal Remember

The only thing I want is the respect of the fans of Liverpool and the fans of the national team of Uruguay.

Respect Team Want Fans Only Thing

I moved to Cardiff when I was 17 and never needed a car. When I came to L.A. for my first job there, I needed a car, so I had to pass my driving test.

Car Job Driving Test Never First

Thinking of Internet chat rooms or AIM as a kind - there's such an intimacy and honesty to tapping on your phone, despite how quick people are to damn digital means of communication as emotionless or too abstract.

Communication Honesty People Thinking

I would never live in anything I design. Life and art are different. My life is very precious to me - my art is precious to me. I love designing things for other people, but I don't like designing things for myself.

Life Love Live Art Myself People

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