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.
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.
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.