Baby Quote by Elizabeth Janeway

“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.”

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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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television. It has changed the way that we perceive the world out there, and though we know that - have indeed been bombarded with analyses on the consequences for society, for the family, and for individual psychology - I don't believe that we have yet begun to appreciate the reach of its subliminal effects, of what we might call 'the…

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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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