Eve Ensler Quotes

I never had time to dream about being anyone else.

I am deeply in tune with my heart and core, and it's made me a better writer, artist, and most of all woman. It's made me more myself.

If you can understand the inner life, then you can wear the uniform, the tattoos, or whatnot and realize that the things that are different about us become superficial.

I may be no better, but at least I am different.

You should wear what you want to wear and not worry about trying to paint yourself in a certain image because that self-awareness is what's going to help you become a more independent and more interesting and healthier adult.

You can know what's in your life when you know what's in your heart.

I'm accepting of who I am and how diverse I am and honoring that.

The truth is that you shouldn't match your insides to other people's outsides. Life is an inside job, and we just have to do our best.

Just, always remember that it's important to be your own person, and as you grow up, you start appreciating the things that make you different.

I don't find it distracting to be me.

I know who I am. And after all these years, there's a victory in that.

How can I be sincere if I am constantly changing my mind to conform with the shadow of what I think others expect of me?

It's like that perfection thing, trying to be that thing you're not. You have to feel that discomfort and not try to get rid of it. Accept that aspect and get into it. Acknowledge those feelings and let them be. You are who you are.

Only by accepting our desires can we have an idea of who we are.

Success takes the courage to know who you really are and be comfortable with that.

Who are you? Answer; you are who you are in this given moment. Label-less. Limitless. Remember that from this day forward.

Right now the way I define beauty is individuality and wisdom, which I think creates a certain inner confidence. And not confidence in a way that's only on the surface, but a deep-down knowing of yourself or settling into who you are.

One thing is certain: you can never become anything other than yourself, and unless you become yourself you cannot be happy. Happiness happens only when a rosebush grows roseflowers; when it flowers, when it has its own individuality. You may be a rosebush and trying to flower as lotus flower - that is creating insanity. Erase the mind. And the way to erase it is not by fight: the way to erase it is just to become aware.

What keeps me going is that quest for just being able to be present and be myself. Not for people, but for me.

Many of us squander precious natural resources -time, creative energy, emotion- comparing our talents to those of others. Today ask Spirit to call forth your authentic gifts, so that you might know them, acknowledge them, and own them.

Don't ever become so preoccupied by who you want to be that you forget to be who you are.

A Woman in harmony with her spirit is like a river flowing. She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination prepared to be herself and only herself

Know yourself, like yourself, be yourself.

A child should be allowed to take as long as she needs for knowing everything about herself, which is the same as learning to be herself. Even twenty-five years if necessary, or even forever. And it wouldn't matter if doing things got delayed, because nothing is really important but being oneself.

Trying to be perfect may be inevitable for people who are smart and ambitious and interested in the world and its good opinion...What is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.