All Elizabeth Janeway Quotes
- Whatever class and race divergences exist, top cats are tom cats. Cat
- We are in a double bind. We are expected to feel inferior not only as women, but because we are old. Aging
- 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… Advice
- Power is the ability not to have to please. Ability
- I have a problem about being nearly sixty: I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I'm thirty-one. Keep Waking
- 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. 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… Admire
- Humor is an antidote to isolation. Antidote
- 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… Animal
- We don't get offered crises, they arrive. Arrive
- Great writers leave us not just their works, but a way of looking at things. Great
- 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… Comfort
- 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… Beings
- Few cultures have not produced the idea that in some past era the world ran better than it does now. Better
- 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… Advice
- I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just be. Admire
- 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.… Big
- As long as mixed grills and combination salads are popular, anthologies will undoubtedly continue in favor. Anthologies
- 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… Been
- The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I'm concerned it can have it. Concerned
- Philosophically, incest asks a fundamental question of our shifting mores: not simply what is normal and what is deviant, but whether such a thing as… All