Myth, legend, and ritual ... function to maintain a status quo. That makes them singularly bad in coping with change, indeed counterproductive, for change is the enemy of myth. — 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 to challenge are built into those means? Science and new technology today like to declare that they encourage… — 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
