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.
cohesion gravity mythology
Mythology is like gravity, inconvenient at times, but necessary for cohesion.
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.
winter water car
By setting the passenger seat of my car far back, and opening the glove compartment, I nestle in a very large sheet of thick fiberboard. It's big enough to hold a table easel, my big palette and a water container. Winter is not going to lock me indoors!
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.
marriage satisfaction firsts
The common impulse is not to sustain a marriage by finding satisfaction elsewhere, but to end the marriage and set up a new one which will provide the comfort lacking in the first.
way great-writers
Great writers leave us not just their works, but a way of looking at things.
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.