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.
world ghost inarticulate
it is through the ghost [writer] that the great gift of knowledge which the inarticulate have for the world can be made available.
men scylla firsts
Man's world' and 'woman's place' have confronted each other since Scylla first faced Charybdis. ... if women have only a place, clearly the rest of the world must belong to someone else and, therefore, in default of God, to men.
believe thinking appreciate
television. It has changed the way that we perceive the world out there, and though we know that - have indeed been bombarded with analyses on the consequences for society, for the family, and for individual psychology - I don't believe that we have yet begun to appreciate the reach of its subliminal effects, of what we might call 'the slow viruses.' They not only get into our ways of seeing, they pervade the ways in which we weave our perceptions together into patterns that support and explain our thinking and our doing and both direct and hinder various kinds of relationships.
enough individual social
individual advances turn into social change when enough of them occur ...
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.