Eve Ensler Quotes

I think it's really important to give yourself a very big question that you're working on that you can come home to, even if you, you know, are going to have to go without a cup of coffee or even a meal, that that should nourish you.

I do think that some of us began to realize that this was going to be a long struggle that was going to go on for decades, and you'd have to knuckle down. A lot of people in our generation did that. They didn't drop out and run away.

Know that even when you want to give up or throw in the towel, in the end it will all be worth the hard work.

For me, football is a quest. Quests entail overcoming hardship, trials of adversity in the pursuit of true joy.

A long-term relationship is about showing up and working hard and banking on each other. If one's down, the other might be up and can help the other one up, and sometimes you're both down and you just [band] together. Endurance is a big theme of it for me. That might not sound romantic, but I kind of think that it is.

Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. ... Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.

It's amazing how far you will get by just staying with something long enough. Most people give up too early.

Here's the truth about telling stories with your life. It's going to sound like a great idea, and you're going to get excited about it, and then when it comes time to do the work, you're not going to want to do it. It's like that with writing books, and it's like that with life. People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen. But joy costs pain.

Hey. Pain can last a moment, it can last a day, it can last a week, it can last a long..long time, but it can't last forever and the only thing that can last forever is if you quit.

The stuff I do, I do every day, and I've been doing it for long periods of time. I don't start and quit-ever. I start and stay on it.

The people I admire are those who keep on producing and working and going on.

As long as hope remains and meaning is preserved, the possibility of overcoming oppression stays alive.

Believe in what you do, because you may have to do it for a long time before it catches on.

It is amazing how much we can endure when we are convinced there is a purpose to our struggle.

Before success comes patience... when we add to our accomplishments the element of hard work over a long period of time, we'll place a far greater value on the outcome. When we are patient, we'll have a greater appreciation of our success.

I see people whose spirits are not broken, who continue to work for justice. That makes me feel alive, when I witness their work, and then I witness some of their dreams come to fruition.

Too often, people forget the basic fact of life: all those good things we enjoy come from the ache in [our] backs and the willingness to shoulder great personals risks.

Make rest a necessity, not an objective. Only rest long enough to gather strength.

Part of leadership (a big part of it actually) is the ability to stick with the dream for a long time.

I was an overnight success all right, but 30 years is a long, long night.

Love appears and says: "You think you're heading towards a specific point, but the whole justification for the goal's existence lies in your love for it. Rest a little,but as soon as you can, get up and carry on. Because ever since your goal found out that you were traveling toward it, it has been running to meet you.

Don't give up. It's just the weight of the world.

School is not easy for kids and football wasn't easy for me... but if it's something you truly believe in, it's something you've got to fight for and be willing to do what you need to do make it work.

In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.

Almost anything difficult, any challenge takes time, patience, and hard work.