Mythology is like gravity, inconvenient at times, but necessary for cohesion. — Elizabeth Janeway Cohesion Copy Share Image
If one is going to change things, one has to make a fuss and catch the eye of the world. — Elizabeth Janeway Change Copy Share Image
This is the power of the powerful to define, to structure, to say, 'This is the way the world works.' It's enormous… — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
Sex cannot be contained within a definition of physical pleasure, it cannot be understood as merely itself for it has stood for… — Elizabeth Janeway Connections Copy Share Image
By setting the passenger seat of my car far back, and opening the glove compartment, I nestle in a very large sheet… — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
The common impulse is not to sustain a marriage by finding satisfaction elsewhere, but to end the marriage and set up a… — Elizabeth Janeway Comfort Copy Share Image
If there's nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come, there is nothing more ubiquitously pervasive than an idea whose… — Elizabeth Janeway Ideas Copy Share Image
Unless I am what I am and feel what I feel - as hard as I can and as honestly and truly… — Elizabeth Janeway Authenticity Copy Share Image
I am not sure how many "sins" I would recognize in the world. Some would surely be defused by changed circumstances. But… — Elizabeth Janeway Advice Copy Share Image
Philosophically, incest asks a fundamental question of our shifting mores: not simply what is normal and what is deviant, but whether such… — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
Myth, legend, and ritual ... function to maintain a status quo. That makes them singularly bad in coping with change, indeed counterproductive,… — Elizabeth Janeway Change Copy Share Image
We older women who know we aren't heroines can offer our younger sisters, at the very least, an honest report of what… — Elizabeth Janeway Advice Copy Share Image
Creeds and causal systems have argued with each other for millennia, and even so we and our ancestors have managed to live… — Elizabeth Janeway Ancestor Copy Share Image
Though we do not have many poets, we certainly have more than we deserve, for we deserve none at all. It is… — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
