Elizabeth Janeway
Elizabeth Janeway
Elizabeth Janewaywas an American author and critic...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 October 1913
CountryUnited States of America
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.
writing long favors
As long as mixed grills and combination salads are popular, anthologies will undoubtedly continue in favor.
long despair
those who despair of life are not long for it.
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.
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
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.
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 believe thinking
This is the power of the powerful to define, to structure, to say, 'This is the way the world works.' It's enormous power. Among the powers of the weak, I think the first one is the power not to believe the powerful.
powerful differences people
Powerful people get away with things. That's one way to demonstrate their difference from the rest of us.
civilization poet lumps
Poets are the leaven in the lump of civilization.
hurt ignorance stupidity
though we do not have many poets, we certainly have more than we deserve, for we deserve none at all. It is ourselves that we are hurting by our stupidity and ignorance of poetry ...
cohesion gravity mythology
Mythology is like gravity, inconvenient at times, but necessary for cohesion.
writing views government
If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world.