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“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 demands of others.” quote by Elizabeth Janeway — Download Open 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 the demands of others.”

Elizabeth Janeway

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If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world.

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those who despair of life are not long for it.

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Mythology is like gravity, inconvenient at times, but necessary for cohesion.

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Creeds and causal systems have argued with each other for millennia, and even so we and our ancestors have managed to live in a…

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Power is the ability not to have to please.

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Love between women is seen as a paradigm of love between equals, and that is perhaps its greatest attraction.

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Unless I am what I am and feel what I feel - as hard as I can and as honestly and truly as I…

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We don't get offered crises, they arrive.

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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…

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Individual advances turn into social change when enough of them occur.

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Poets are the leaven in the lump of civilization.

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