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Eve Ensler

"An activist is someone who cannot help but fight for something. That person is not usually motivated by a need for power or money or fame, but in fact is driven slightly mad by some injustice, some cruelty, some unfairness, so much so that he or she is compelled by some internal moral engine to act to make it better."

Source : Jody Williams, Eve Ensler (2013). “My Name is Jody Williams: A Vermont Girl's Winding Path to the Nobel Peace Prize”, p.9, Univ of California Press

Eve Ensler

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“The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.”
“The best crime novels are all based on people keeping secrets. All lying - you may think a lie is harmless, but you put them all together and there's a calamity.”
“I have a very real political awareness that at least on a transient basis the more drastic action taken by the president, the more popular it is.”
“Minorities have never been given their rights. They have always had to wage a political and legal battle to win them.”
“Imperfect people are all god has ever had to work with. That must be terribly frustrating to him, but he deals with it. So should we.”

Source : “Lord, I Believe” By Jeffrey R. Holland, www.lds.org. April 2013.
“I will not sleep fine if Donald Trump wins and I will not sleep fine is Hillary Clinton wins. Whether you are looking at nuclear weapons, whether you are looking at expanding wars and their blowback, which will not stop as long as those wars continue to expand, or whether you're looking at the climate, in my view, we have no choice. This is an existential moment. We are deciding not only what kind of world we will have, but whether we will have a world or not. I think it's very important to get outside this box that tells us we are powerless, when in fact, we are powerful.”

Source : "Meet Jill Stein, the Woman Determined to Take On Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in November". Interview with Krystal Marie Ball, www.glamour.com. July 25, 2016.
“George Bowering doesn’t play fair. Baseball Love is so good there is no memoir in the league that can go up against it. Bowering has a sense of story and an eye for detail that eliminate the possibility that he was a lousy second baseman. Reading a home run is fun.”
“If people don't read, that's their choice; a lifelong book habit may itself be some sort of affliction.”

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