"I have a problem about being nearly sixty:……" — Elizabeth Janeway
"I have a problem about being nearly sixty: I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I'm thirty-one."
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21 Quotes by Elizabeth Janeway
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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…
- I am not sure how many "sins" I would recognize in the world. Some would surely be defused by changed…
- Power is the ability not to have to please.
- We haven't come a long way, we've come a short way. If we hadn't come a short way, no one…
- I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar…
- 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…
- 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…
- Sex cannot be contained within a definition of physical pleasure, it cannot be understood as merely itself for it has…
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