Powerful people get away with things. That's one way to demonstrate their difference from the rest of us. — 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
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 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
power is not a thing to be owned. But if you believe that it is such a thing, losing it becomes a… — 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… — Elizabeth Janeway 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 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
