Eve Ensler Quotes

I think the world is always improving and always not improving. I think that both are simultaneously happening all the time.

You think that would have changed things? The answer is of course, and for a while, and never.

When Pico [Iyer] talks about home being a place of isolation, I think he's right. But it's the paradox. I think that's why I so love Great Salt Lake. Every day when I look out at that lake, I think, "Ah, paradox" - a body of water than no one can drink. It's the liquid lie of the desert. But I think we have those paradoxes within us and certainly the whole idea of home is windswept with paradox.

Inconsistency is my very essence; it is the game I never cease to play as I turn my wheel in its ever changing circle, filled with joy as I bring the top to the bottom and the bottom to the top

The world is full of contradiction.

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

Being ambivalent doesn't mean that you're a relevatist, that anything goes; it just means that you show the complexity of life. Life is always complex.

You may find many contradictory statements and philosophies within my writings. However, to this I will say such is life, for life is full of contradictions.

In Chekhov, everything blends into its opposite, just fractionally, and this is sort of unsettling. And that's why you end up 100 years later asking, 'Is that moment tragic or comic?'

All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's fun, and it's fun because it's hard.

Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

Ultimately, it's a pretty confusing moment.

I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.

I don't see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do.

The world's a mean place. It's unfair, then it's fair. It's hateful, then it's loving. It's a very peculiar place on philosophical and metaphysical and religious levels.

Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical.

If we have as a clear certainty with which to plan, total uncertainty, then that would be helpful.

The best ideas make you want to say 'yes' and 'no' in the same breath.

There are gray areas in everything.

It's very human to try to put things into boxes, and it's hard for us to reconcile with grey areas, and yet somehow, that's the area I find the most poetic, the juiciest.

I'm up and down and round about, Yet all the world can't find me out; Though hundreds have employed their leisure, They never yet could find my measure.

I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.

I have two answers to everything and one answer to nothing.

There's not one person in the world that's not a living, walking contradiction.