We put up with a lot to be saved from chaos. We always have. — Elizabeth Janeway Chaos Copy Share Image
Whatever class and race divergences exist, top cats are tom cats. — Elizabeth Janeway Cat Copy Share Image
Love between women is seen as a paradigm of love between equals, and that is perhaps its greatest attraction. — Elizabeth Janeway Attraction Copy Share Image
what society requires from art ... is that it function as an early warning system. — Elizabeth Janeway Art Copy Share Image
a problem that presents itself as a dilemma carries an unfortunate prescription: to argue instead of act. — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
Great writers leave us not just their works, but a way of looking at things. — Elizabeth Janeway Great writers Copy Share Image
The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I'm concerned it can have it. — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
As long as mixed grills and combination salads are popular, anthologies will undoubtedly continue in favor. — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
it is through the ghost [writer] that the great gift of knowledge which the inarticulate have for the world can be made… — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
The maxims for success laid out by the powerful are never much good as guides for those who aren't powerful. — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes… — Elizabeth Janeway Animal Copy Share Image
Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the… — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
The idea of power as a possession, whose asset can be banked and drawn on when needed, comes easy to a society… — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
we expect definitions to tell us not only what is, but what to do about it; to show us how the world… — Elizabeth Janeway Action Copy Share Image
Man's world' and 'woman's place' have confronted each other since Scylla first faced Charybdis. ... if women have only a place, clearly… — Elizabeth Janeway Charybdis Copy Share Image
The greatest barrier to women's advance in the public world of action has been their acquiescence in the idea that they don't… — Elizabeth Janeway Acquiescence Copy Share Image
Today, what most people live in, or with, is the less-than-nuclear family. Working fathers are absent from home during most of the… — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
If history is really relevant in today's world, the proposition doesn't command much respect. Perhaps the past is a different country, but… — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
power is not a thing to be owned. But if you believe that it is such a thing, losing it becomes a… — Elizabeth Janeway Authority Copy Share Image
The surprise of animals... in and out, cats and dogs and a milk goat and chickens and guinea hens, all taken for… — Elizabeth Janeway Animal Copy Share Image
I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just… — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
How can you communicate your thoughts or demonstrate your hypotheses by conventional means when all the values and standards that you want… — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
television. It has changed the way that we perceive the world out there, and though we know that - have indeed been… — Elizabeth Janeway Analysis Copy Share Image
reaction isn't action - that is, it isn't truly creative. — Elizabeth Janeway Action Copy Share Image
We haven't come a long way, we've come a short way. If we hadn't come a short way, no one would be… — Elizabeth Janeway Baby Copy Share Image
If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world. — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
Powerful people get away with things. That's one way to demonstrate their difference from the rest of us. — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just… — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
Art is a framework, a kind of living trellis, on which public dreaming can shape itself. — Elizabeth Janeway Art Copy Share Image
Individual advances turn into social change when enough of them occur. — Elizabeth Janeway Change Copy Share Image
I have a problem about being nearly sixty: I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I'm thirty-one. — Elizabeth Janeway Morning Copy Share Image
Mistrust must be acted on, and effective action by the ruled is not solitary and singular, but joint and repeated. — Elizabeth Janeway Action Copy Share Image
Few cultures have not produced the idea that in some past era the world ran better than it does now. — Elizabeth Janeway Culture Copy Share Image
We are in a double bind. We are expected to feel inferior not only as women, but because we are old. — Elizabeth Janeway Aging Copy Share Image
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