Elizabeth Janeway Quotes and Sayings - Page 2
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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 learned and how we have grown.”
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“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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“Few cultures have not produced the idea that in some past era the world ran better than it does now.”
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“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 a profound connection between human beings.”
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“it is through the ghost [writer] that the great gift of knowledge which the inarticulate have for the world can be made available.”
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“The greatest barrier to women's advance in the public world of action has been their acquiescence in the idea that they don't belong out there.”
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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 slow viruses.' They not only get into our ways of seeing, they pervade the ways in which we weave our perceptions together into patterns that support and explain our thinking and our doing and both direct and hinder various kinds of relationships.”
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“individual advances turn into social change when enough of them occur ...”
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“We put up with a lot to be saved from chaos. We always have.”
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“Man's world' and 'woman's place' have confronted each other since Scylla first faced Charybdis. ... if women have only a place, clearly the rest of the world must belong to someone else and, therefore, in default of God, to men.”
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“The maxims for success laid out by the powerful are never much good as guides for those who aren't powerful.”
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“This is the power of the powerful to define, to structure, to say, 'This is the way the world works.' It's enormous power. Among the powers of the weak, I think the first one is the power not to believe the powerful.”
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“Today, what most people live in, or with, is the less-than-nuclear family. Working fathers are absent from home during most of the day, the children are schooled outside it, and practically all women who work for money must go outside to earn their living.”
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“If history is really relevant in today's world, the proposition doesn't command much respect. Perhaps the past is a different country, but if so no one much wants to travel there.”
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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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“If there's nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come, there is nothing more ubiquitously pervasive than an idea whose time won't go.”
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“Mythology is like gravity, inconvenient at times, but necessary for cohesion.”
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“though we do not have many poets, we certainly have more than we deserve, for we deserve none at all. It is ourselves that we are hurting by our stupidity and ignorance of poetry ...”
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“Poets are the leaven in the lump of civilization.”
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“The idea of power as a possession, whose asset can be banked and drawn on when needed, comes easy to a society whose rules grow out of the methods of finance capitalism.”
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“Powerful people get away with things. That's one way to demonstrate their difference from the rest of us.”
-- Elizabeth Janeway
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