"I think of the security of cages. How……" — Eve Ensler
"I think of the security of cages. How violence, cruelty, oppression, become a kind of home, a familiar pattern, a cage, in which we know how to operate and define ourselves…"
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69 Quotes by Eve Ensler
Eve Ensler has 69 quotes on this site.
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I began to see my body like an iPad or a car. I would drive it and demand things from…
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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…
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I have been a depressed person most of m life. I was always in the throes of self-hatred.
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Real security is contemplating death, not pretending it doesn't exist.
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Money doesn't make you special, it makes you lucky. Be generous, be crazy, be outrageous.
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The clitoris is pure in purpose. It is the only organ in the body designed purely for pleasure.
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Women are the primary resource of the planet. They give birth, we come from them. They are mothers, they are…
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Security is elusive. It's impossible. We all die. We all get old. We all get sick. People leave us. People…
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The verb that's been enforced on girls is to please. Girls are trained to please...I want us all to change…
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You know I think so many of us live outside our bodies. My dream is that people will find a…
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Be transparent as wind, be as possible and relentless and dangerous, be what moves things forward without needing to leave…
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Stop trying to fix your body. It was never broken.
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More Cage Quotes
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You can cage the singer but not the song.
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Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb,…
— Robert Burton
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At a young age, I was interested in comic books, which was really how I learnt to read. The name…
— Nicolas Cage
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A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of…
— Millicent Fenwick
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I want my son to wear a helmet 24 hours a day. If it was socially acceptable I'd be the…
— Will Arnett
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You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.
— Michel de Montaigne
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We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and…
— James A. Baldwin
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I paid a worker at New York's zoo to re-open it just for me and Robin (his wife). When we…
— Mike Tyson
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I am now a man of despair, rejected, abandoned, shut up in this iron cage from which there is no…
— John Bunyan
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On her daughter's pet rabbit: I don't think he liked being in a cage and wouldn't stop masturbating and humping…
— Kate Beckinsale
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