Elizabeth Janeway Quotes

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• Whatever class and race divergences exist, top cats are tom cats.
• We are in a double bind. We are expected to feel inferior not only as women, but because we are old.
• I am not sure how many "sins" I would recognize in the world. Some would surely be defused by changed circumstances. But I can imagine…
• Power is the ability not to have to please.
• I have a problem about being nearly sixty: I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I'm thirty-one.
• 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 calling us baby.
• I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just be. It's wonderful…
• Humor is an antidote to isolation.
• Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of…
• We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
• Great writers leave us not just their works, but a way of looking at things.
• The common impulse is not to sustain a marriage by finding satisfaction elsewhere, but to end the marriage and set up a new one which…
• Sex cannot be contained within a definition of physical pleasure, it cannot be understood as merely itself for it has stood for too long as…
• Few cultures have not produced the idea that in some past era the world ran better than it does now.
• 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 learned…
• I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just be.
• By setting the passenger seat of my car far back, and opening the glove compartment, I nestle in a very large sheet of thick fiberboard.…
• As long as mixed grills and combination salads are popular, anthologies will undoubtedly continue in favor.
• 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 the…
• The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I'm concerned it can have it.

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