Elizabeth Janeway
Elizabeth Janeway
Elizabeth Janewaywas an American author and critic...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 October 1913
CountryUnited States of America
ability please
Power is the ability not to have to please.
powerful ideas ifs
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.
art warning function
what society requires from art ... is that it function as an early warning system.
advice honest heroines
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.
power ideas finance
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.
contemplative-life people upset
I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just be. It's wonderful to have someone like that around, you always feel you can count on them. You can go away and come back, you can change your mind and your hairdo and your politics, and when you get through doing all these upsetting things, you look around and there they are, just the way they were, just being.
aging feels expected
We are in a double bind. We are expected to feel inferior not only as women, but because we are old.
baby power long
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.
american-author deserves human race
The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I'm concerned it can have it.
american-author beings demands efforts existence history human personal shaped whose
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.
appears consider lump next people poetic poets stop verse
In this nadir of poetic repute, when the only verse that most people read from one year's end to the next is what appears on greetings cards, it is well for us to stop and consider our poets. . . . Poets are the leaven in the lump of civilization.
anyway highly human improbable men potential realize seems women
It seems to me highly improbable that women are going to realize their human potential without alienating men - some men, anyway
cannot denied simplicity
Such simplicity cannot be taught. But it can be denied and lost.