power is not a thing to be owned. But if you believe that it is such a thing, losing it becomes a possibility to fear. That fear, I think, is one reason for the dark projections of a catastrophic future… — Elizabeth Janeway 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
television. It has changed the way that we perceive the world out there, and though we know that - have indeed been bombarded with analyses on the consequences for society, for the family, and for individual psychology - I don't believe that we have yet begun to appreciate the reach of its subliminal effects, of what we might call 'the… — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share
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… — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
Mythology is like gravity, inconvenient at times, but necessary for cohesion. — Elizabeth Janeway 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 in a… — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
Love between women is seen as a paradigm of love between equals, and that is perhaps its greatest attraction. — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
Unless I am what I am and feel what I feel - as hard as I can and as honestly and truly as I… — Elizabeth Janeway 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 we have… — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
Individual advances turn into social change when enough of them occur. — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
