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… — 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… — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
Man's world' and 'woman's place' have confronted each other since Scylla first faced Charybdis. ... if women have only a place, clearly… — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
we expect definitions to tell us not only what is, but what to do about it; to show us how the world… — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
Few cultures have not produced the idea that in some past era the world ran better than it does now. — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
it is through the ghost [writer] that the great gift of knowledge which the inarticulate have for the world can be made… — Elizabeth Janeway 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 Copy Share Image
If history is really relevant in today's world, the proposition doesn't command much respect. Perhaps the past is a different country, but… — Elizabeth Janeway 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 Copy Share Image
The greatest barrier to women's advance in the public world of action has been their acquiescence in the idea that they don't… — 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
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