Elizabeth Janeway
Elizabeth Janeway
Elizabeth Janewaywas an American author and critic...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 October 1913
CountryUnited States of America
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.
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.
change eye world
If one is going to change things, one has to make a fuss and catch the eye of the world.
philosophical wine world
Creeds and causal systems have argued with each other for millennia, and even so we and our ancestors have managed to live in a world of differing opinions. Philosophical disputes don't often affect the price of fish or wine.
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.
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.