Elizabeth Janeway
Elizabeth Janeway
Elizabeth Janewaywas an American author and critic...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 October 1913
CountryUnited States of America
crisis
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
growing-up animal matter
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 instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections?
retirement morning thinking
I have a problem about being nearly sixty: I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I'm thirty-one.
laughter isolation antidote
Humor is an antidote to isolation.
writing long favors
As long as mixed grills and combination salads are popular, anthologies will undoubtedly continue in favor.
cat class race
Whatever class and race divergences exist, top cats are tom cats.
wisdom betrayal advice
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 none that is more irredeemably sinful than the betrayal, the exploitation, of the young by those who should care for them.
joints action activism
Mistrust must be acted on, and effective action by the ruled is not solitary and singular, but joint and repeated.
dream art shapes
art is a framework, a kind of living trellis, on which public dreaming can shape itself ...
love-is sexuality paradigm
Love between women is seen as a paradigm of love between equals, and that is perhaps its greatest attraction.
mean technology thinking
How can you communicate your thoughts or demonstrate your hypotheses by conventional means when all the values and standards that you want to challenge are built into those means? Science and new technology today like to declare that they encourage 'lateral thinking,' new ways of seeing and putting data together - but all systems have an inbuilt resistance to what has not been programmed into them through the premises on which their rules are based.
long despair
those who despair of life are not long for it.
together labels world
we expect definitions to tell us not only what is, but what to do about it; to show us how the world fits together and how its different parts connect and work. ... A label is the first step toward action.
fall conflict controversy
Can one consider controversy without falling into it?