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title: "2 Life Sit Quotes By Elizabeth Janeway"
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> [I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just be.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-janeway/i-admire-people-who-are-suited-to-the-contemplative-life-they-can-sit/)

[Elizabeth Janeway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-janeway/)

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> [I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just be. It's wonderful to have someone like that around, you always feel you can count on them. You…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-janeway/i-admire-people-who-are-suited-to-the-contemplative-life-they-can-sit-2/)

[Elizabeth Janeway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-janeway/)

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## More by Elizabeth Janeway

> [If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-janeway/if-every-nation-gets-the-government-it-deserves-every-generation/)

[Elizabeth Janeway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-janeway/)

> [television. It has changed the way that we perceive the world out there, and though we know that - have indeed been bombarded with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-janeway/television-it-has-changed-the-way-that-we-perceive-the-world-out/)

[Elizabeth Janeway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-janeway/)

> [those who despair of life are not long for it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-janeway/those-who-despair-of-life-are-not-long-for-it/)

[Elizabeth Janeway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-janeway/)

> [Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the efforts and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-janeway/like-their-personal-lives-women-s-history-is-fragmented-interrupted-a/)

[Elizabeth Janeway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-janeway/)

> [Mythology is like gravity, inconvenient at times, but necessary for cohesion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-janeway/mythology-is-like-gravity-inconvenient-at-times-but-necessary-for/)

[Elizabeth Janeway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-janeway/)

> [Creeds and causal systems have argued with each other for millennia, and even so we and our ancestors have managed to live in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-janeway/creeds-and-causal-systems-have-argued-with-each-other-for-millennia/)

[Elizabeth Janeway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-janeway/)

> [Power is the ability not to have to please.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-janeway/power-is-the-ability-not-to-have-to-please/)

[Elizabeth Janeway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-janeway/)

> [Love between women is seen as a paradigm of love between equals, and that is perhaps its greatest attraction.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-janeway/love-between-women-is-seen-as-a-paradigm-of-love-between-equals-and/)

[Elizabeth Janeway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-janeway/)

> [Unless I am what I am and feel what I feel - as hard as I can and as honestly and truly as I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-janeway/unless-i-am-what-i-am-and-feel-what-i-feel-as-hard-as-i-can-and-as/)

[Elizabeth Janeway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-janeway/)

> [We don't get offered crises, they arrive.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-janeway/we-don-t-get-offered-crises-they-arrive/)

[Elizabeth Janeway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-janeway/)

> [We older women who know we aren't heroines can offer our younger sisters, at the very least, an honest report of what we have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-janeway/we-older-women-who-know-we-aren-t-heroines-can-offer-our-younger/)

[Elizabeth Janeway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-janeway/)

> [Individual advances turn into social change when enough of them occur.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-janeway/individual-advances-turn-into-social-change-when-enough-of-them-occur/)

[Elizabeth Janeway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-janeway/)

> [Poets are the leaven in the lump of civilization.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-janeway/poets-are-the-leaven-in-the-lump-of-civilization/)

[Elizabeth Janeway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-janeway/)

> [Man's world' and 'woman's place' have confronted each other since Scylla first faced Charybdis. ... if women have only a place, clearly the rest…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-janeway/man-s-world-and-woman-s-place-have-confronted-each-other-since-scylla/)

[Elizabeth Janeway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-janeway/)

> [Art is a framework, a kind of living trellis, on which public dreaming can shape itself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-janeway/art-is-a-framework-a-kind-of-living-trellis-on-which-public-dreaming/)

[Elizabeth Janeway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-janeway/)

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