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.
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.
retirement morning thinking
I have a problem about being nearly sixty: I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I'm thirty-one.
mean technology thinking
How can you communicate your thoughts or demonstrate your hypotheses by conventional means when all the values and standards that you want to challenge are built into those means? Science and new technology today like to declare that they encourage 'lateral thinking,' new ways of seeing and putting data together - but all systems have an inbuilt resistance to what has not been programmed into them through the premises on which their rules are based.
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 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.
country past history
If history is really relevant in today's world, the proposition doesn't command much respect. Perhaps the past is a different country, but if so no one much wants to travel there.