Elizabeth Janeway
Elizabeth Janeway
Elizabeth Janewaywas an American author and critic...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 October 1913
CountryUnited States of America
dog zoos taken
The surprise of animals... in and out, cats and dogs and a milk goat and chickens and guinea hens, all taken for granted, as if man was intended to live on terms of friendly intercourse with the rest of creation instead of huddling in isolation on the fourteenth floor of an apartment house in a city where animals occurred behind bars in the zoo.
powerful differences people
Powerful people get away with things. That's one way to demonstrate their difference from the rest of us.
ideas acquiescence world
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.
past ideas culture
Few cultures have not produced the idea that in some past era the world ran better than it does now.
creative action reactions
reaction isn't action - that is, it isn't truly creative.
sex profound long
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.
retirement morning thinking
I have a problem about being nearly sixty: I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I'm thirty-one.
fall conflict controversy
Can one consider controversy without falling into it?
change eye world
If one is going to change things, one has to make a fuss and catch the eye of the world.
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.
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.