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 Ideas Copy Share Image
Myth, legend, and ritual ... function to maintain a status quo. That makes them singularly bad in coping with change, indeed counterproductive,… — Elizabeth Janeway Change Copy Share Image
Great writers leave us not just their works, but a way of looking at things. — Elizabeth Janeway Great writers Copy Share Image
Whatever class and race divergences exist, top cats are tom cats. — Elizabeth Janeway Cat Copy Share Image
We are in a double bind. We are expected to feel inferior not only as women, but because we are old. — Elizabeth Janeway Aging Copy Share Image
Sex cannot be contained within a definition of physical pleasure, it cannot be understood as merely itself for it has stood for… — Elizabeth Janeway Connections Copy Share Image
Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes… — Elizabeth Janeway Animal Copy Share Image
By setting the passenger seat of my car far back, and opening the glove compartment, I nestle in a very large sheet… — Elizabeth Janeway Bigs 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 Advice Copy Share Image
Mistrust must be acted on, and effective action by the ruled is not solitary and singular, but joint and repeated. — Elizabeth Janeway Action Copy Share Image
I have a problem about being nearly sixty: I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I'm thirty-one. — Elizabeth Janeway Morning 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 Command Copy Share Image
Though we do not have many poets, we certainly have more than we deserve, for we deserve none at all. It is… — Elizabeth Janeway Deserve Copy Share Image
The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I'm concerned it can have it. — Elizabeth Janeway As far as Copy Share Image
I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just… — Elizabeth Janeway Admire Copy Share Image
I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just… — Elizabeth Janeway Admire 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 Guides 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… — Elizabeth Janeway Built 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 Change 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 Acquiescence Copy Share Image
Today, what most people live in, or with, is the less-than-nuclear family. Working fathers are absent from home during most of the… — Elizabeth Janeway Absent 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 Authority Copy Share Image
We haven't come a long way, we've come a short way. If we hadn't come a short way, no one would be… — Elizabeth Janeway Baby Copy Share Image
