A Quote by Eve Ensler

The verb that's been enforced on girls is to please. Girls are trained to please...I want us all to change the verb. I want the verb to be educate, or activate, or engage, or confront, or defy, or create.

Eve Ensler

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Activate Been Change Confront Create Defy Educate Enforced Engage Please Trained Us Verb Want Want U

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Eve Ensler
American - Playwright
Born: May 25, 1953

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Betty Eadie

After the verb 'to Love', 'to Help' is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Bertha von Suttner

In life one must decide whether to conjugate the verb to have or the verb to be.

Franz Liszt

The world's favorite verb is 'get'. The verb of the Christian is 'give'

Billy Graham

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Ulysses S. Grant

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Vanderlei Luxemburgo

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Stephen Covey

When we put words together - adjective with noun, noun with verb, verb with object - we start to talk to each other.

Donald Hall

The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.

Victor Hugo

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Gustave Flaubert

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Wanderlei Silva

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Martha Graham

I want to see the thirst inside the syllables I want to touch the fire in the sound: I want to feel the darkness of the cry. I want words as rough as virgin rocks.” - Verb.

Pablo Neruda

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