If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world. — Elizabeth Janeway Deserve 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 Analysis 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… — Elizabeth Janeway Been Copy Share Image
Mythology is like gravity, inconvenient at times, but necessary for cohesion. — Elizabeth Janeway Cohesion 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 Ancestor Copy Share Image
Love between women is seen as a paradigm of love between equals, and that is perhaps its greatest attraction. — Elizabeth Janeway Attraction Copy Share Image
Unless I am what I am and feel what I feel - as hard as I can and as honestly and truly… — Elizabeth Janeway Authenticity 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… — Elizabeth Janeway Advice Copy Share Image
Individual advances turn into social change when enough of them occur. — Elizabeth Janeway Change 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 Charybdis Copy Share Image
Art is a framework, a kind of living trellis, on which public dreaming can shape itself. — Elizabeth Janeway Art Copy Share Image
The idea of power as a possession, whose asset can be banked and drawn on when needed, comes easy to a society… — Elizabeth Janeway Assets 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 Action Copy Share Image
what society requires from art ... is that it function as an early warning system. — Elizabeth Janeway Art Copy Share Image
The surprise of animals... in and out, cats and dogs and a milk goat and chickens and guinea hens, all taken for… — Elizabeth Janeway Animal Copy Share Image
As long as mixed grills and combination salads are popular, anthologies will undoubtedly continue in favor. — Elizabeth Janeway Anthology 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 Culture Copy Share Image
We put up with a lot to be saved from chaos. We always have. — Elizabeth Janeway Chaos 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 Available Copy Share Image
Philosophically, incest asks a fundamental question of our shifting mores: not simply what is normal and what is deviant, but whether such… — Elizabeth Janeway Great saying by great authors Copy Share Image
a problem that presents itself as a dilemma carries an unfortunate prescription: to argue instead of act. — Elizabeth Janeway Arguing Copy Share Image