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Elizabeth Janeway quotes: Mistrust must be acted on, and effective action by the ruled is not solitary and singular, but joint and repeated.

Mistrust must be acted on, and effective action by the ruled is not solitary and singular, but joint and repeated.

Elizabeth Janeway quotes: Love between women is seen as a paradigm of love between equals, and that is perhaps its greatest attraction.

Love between women is seen as a paradigm of love between equals, and that is perhaps its greatest attraction.

Elizabeth Janeway quotes: We are in a double bind. We are expected to feel inferior not only as women, but because we are old.

We are in a double bind. We are expected to feel inferior not only as women, but because we are old.

Elizabeth Janeway quotes: 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.

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.

Elizabeth Janeway quotes: Great writers leave us not just their works, but a way of looking at things.

Great writers leave us not just their works, but a way of looking at things.

Elizabeth Janeway quotes: We don't get offered crises, they arrive.

We don't get offered crises, they arrive.

Elizabeth Janeway quotes: I have a problem about being nearly sixty: I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I'm thirty-one.

I have a problem about being nearly sixty: I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I'm thirty-one.

Elizabeth Janeway quotes: Can one consider controversy without falling into it?

Can one consider controversy without falling into it?

Elizabeth Janeway quotes: 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.

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.

Elizabeth Janeway quotes: We put up with a lot to be saved from chaos. We always have.

We put up with a lot to be saved from chaos. We always have.

Elizabeth Janeway quotes: Whatever class and race divergences exist, top cats are tom cats.

Whatever class and race divergences exist, top cats are tom cats.

Elizabeth Janeway quotes: If one is going to change things, one has to make a fuss and catch the eye of the world.

If one is going to change things, one has to make a fuss and catch the eye of the world.

Elizabeth Janeway quotes: If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world.

If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world.

Elizabeth Janeway quotes: Reaction isn't action - that is, it isn't truly creative.

Reaction isn't action - that is, it isn't truly creative.

Elizabeth Janeway quotes: Art is a framework, a kind of living trellis, on which public dreaming can shape itself ...

Art is a framework, a kind of living trellis, on which public dreaming can shape itself ...

Elizabeth Janeway quotes: The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I'm concerned it can have it.

The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I'm concerned it can have it.

Elizabeth Janeway quotes: Humor is an antidote to isolation.

Humor is an antidote to isolation.

Elizabeth Janeway quotes: 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.

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.

Elizabeth Janeway quotes: What society requires from art ... is that it function as an early warning system.

What society requires from art ... is that it function as an early warning system.

Elizabeth Janeway quotes: As long as mixed grills and combination salads are popular, anthologies will undoubtedly continue in favor.

As long as mixed grills and combination salads are popular, anthologies will undoubtedly continue in favor.

Elizabeth Janeway quotes: It is through the ghost [writer] that the great gift of knowledge which the inarticulate have for the world can be made available.

It is through the ghost [writer] that the great gift of knowledge which the inarticulate have for the world can be made available.

Elizabeth Janeway quotes: Few cultures have not produced the idea that in some past era the world ran better than it does now.

Few cultures have not produced the idea that in some past era the world ran better than it does now.

Elizabeth Janeway quotes: The maxims for success laid out by the powerful are never much good as guides for those who aren't powerful.

The maxims for success laid out by the powerful are never much good as guides for those who aren't powerful.

Elizabeth Janeway quotes: Poets are the leaven in the lump of civilization.

Poets are the leaven in the lump of civilization.

Elizabeth Janeway quotes: Those who despair of life are not long for it.

Those who despair of life are not long for it.

Elizabeth Janeway quotes: Powerful people get away with things. That's one way to demonstrate their difference from the rest of us.

Powerful people get away with things. That's one way to demonstrate their difference from the rest of us.

Elizabeth Janeway quotes: Mythology is like gravity, inconvenient at times, but necessary for cohesion.

Mythology is like gravity, inconvenient at times, but necessary for cohesion.

Elizabeth Janeway quotes: Individual advances turn into social change when enough of them occur ...

Individual advances turn into social change when enough of them occur ...

Elizabeth Janeway quotes: A problem that presents itself as a dilemma carries an unfortunate prescription: to argue instead of act.

A problem that presents itself as a dilemma carries an unfortunate prescription: to argue instead of act.