Eve Ensler Quotes

It's such a liberating feeling to go out of your comfort zone, to be independent and strike out on my own without my parents.

It was the first time I traveled alone, but I was not scared.

There is something so different and empowering about travelling solo. It's a unique experience and one that is so self-educating.

For those who know the value of and exquisite taste of solitary freedom (for one is only free when alone), the act of leaving is the bravest and most beautiful of all.

Come with me into the world and reclaim your independence. You stand to gain so much, and riches are the least of it.

The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.

What I was reading was already part of my psyche, but finally someone else was saying it's okay to walk alone.

It's important to me to try and expose young people to the things they believe are off-limits to them. I tell them, 'There are no walls, only the ones we put up.' My advice to young people looking at my life is not to follow my footprint but to go out there and make their own.

I am restless. I don't mind leaving this comfortable, static life. I could live a year on my own in a remote village.

My dad let me figure out what I wanted to do on my own.

To leave in search of yourself, of your real needs, is easier when you don't have to justify yourself to anyone, when there are not too many people bestowing you their attention.

The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own.

The best thing we can do is develop our own.

Anybody that wants to walk out that door and leave home for a few months and rely on themselves instead of fate might have some interesting stories to tell.

Whether or not cutting my hair was the right decision, it empowered me.

A woman can walk miles without making one single step forward. As a child born in a harem, I instinctively knew that to live is to open closed doors. To live is to look outside. To live is to step out. Life is trespassing.

I have to have the wheel. It's given me an opportunity to experience and explore things.

I have traveled the world by myself.

I remember after a year in London, I was at an MTV party and a friend saying to me that it was such a brave thing to do to come over to London by myself. I never thought it was a big deal. It was my dream. I am so independent. It is just ridiculous. I am too independent for my own good.

Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me. The long brown path before me leading me wherever I choose. Henceforth, I ask not good fortune, I myself am good fortune. Henceforth, I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing.

I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.

Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars.

I believe in love, but I'm not sitting around waiting for it. I buy houses. I travel. I take jobs on mountaintops in Transylvania... I know that happiness comes in many ways and if you spend your life hoping to be found by or to find a significant other, you're going to miss out on all that stuff. And that's what makes you special and makes your life rich.

It's just such a freeing thing to set these great challenges for yourself, to travel, to learn more about the world, to just go out there and get crazy and get free and get strong.

Make it on your own if you think you can.If you see somewhere to go, I understand.