Eve Ensler Quotes

I guess I found it useful to realise that everything is true at once, you know? You can pull back and say, 'Everything will be fine,' but you can also be in a situation and say, 'Not everything is going to be fine.'

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

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.

I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex.

Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

I think the phrase that resonates from 'Just One Year' is something I sort of live by: 'The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.'

Contradiction was something I really like when it is embraced in that kind of philosophy.

The thing about Wagner is we're always wrong about him, because he always embraces opposites. There are things in his operas which viewed one way are naturalistic, and viewed another way are symbolic, but the problem is you can't represent both views on stage at once.

As a reader and a writer, I'm happiest when apparently mutually exclusive states can somehow coexist.

That's been a huge recurring thing in growing up - allowing two things to exist in the same space even though, instinctively, they might not be designated to.

It took me a long time to learn both good and bad can exist simultaneously.

There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.

So much of life is paradox. So much of life is neither one thing nor the other... it's both things at the same time.

I think the world is always improving and always not improving. I think that both are simultaneously happening all the time. I don't think it's one motion unfortunately - I wish we could say it's better, better, better - but I think it's better, bad, better, bad - you know?

Life has never been All or Nothing- it's All and Nothing. Forget the binaries.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

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.

The unnatural, that too is natural.

There's a dark side to everything.

It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules.

What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy.

Everything is perfect and there is always room for improvement.

Some people put up a peace sign with one hand. Some people put up the middle finger instead. I use two hands and put up both.

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

Duality is not a story. Duality is just a complexity.