Elizabeth Janeway
Elizabeth Janeway
Elizabeth Janewaywas an American author and critic...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 October 1913
CountryUnited States of America
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.
powerful guides maxims
The maxims for success laid out by the powerful are never much good as guides for those who aren't powerful.
change powerful fear
power is not a thing to be owned. But if you believe that it is such a thing, losing it becomes a possibility to fear. That fear, I think, is one reason for the dark projections of a catastrophic future that are so widespread, in our dual society. The present powerful, being committed to polarization, expect that any new deal will overturn the one that set them in authority; that the last shall be first and the first last, role reversal everywhere, men as slaves, women as masters, in a revolution of contradiction.
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.
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.
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.