Elizabeth Janeway Quotes
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Mistrust must be acted on, and effective action by the ruled is not solitary and singular, but joint and repeated.
— Elizabeth Janeway
Love between women is seen as a paradigm of love between equals, and that is perhaps its greatest attraction.
— Elizabeth Janeway
Mr. Agnew, I believe you have a slight swing in your flaw.
— Jimmy Demaret
We are in a double bind. We are expected to feel inferior not only as women, but because we are old.
— Elizabeth Janeway
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
Great writers leave us not just their works, but a way of looking at things.
— Elizabeth Janeway
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
— Elizabeth Janeway
I have a problem about being nearly sixty: I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I'm thirty-one.
— Elizabeth Janeway
Can one consider controversy without falling into it?
— Elizabeth Janeway
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
He used deliberation as others use quickness of repartee.
— Agatha Christie
We put up with a lot to be saved from chaos. We always have.
— Elizabeth Janeway
What society requires from art ... is that it function as an early warning system.
— Elizabeth Janeway
Jack, sometimes you don't have to mean to hurt someone to hurt someone. You understand?
— R.J. Palacio
I don't fear death, it must be like a long sleep.
— Katharine Hepburn
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
As long as mixed grills and combination salads are popular, anthologies will undoubtedly continue in favor.
— Elizabeth Janeway
The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I'm concerned it can have it.
— Elizabeth Janeway
Art is a framework, a kind of living trellis, on which public dreaming can shape itself ...
— Elizabeth Janeway
Reaction isn't action - that is, it isn't truly creative.
— Elizabeth Janeway
If one is going to change things, one has to make a fuss and catch the eye of the world.
— Elizabeth Janeway
Whatever class and race divergences exist, top cats are tom cats.
— Elizabeth Janeway
If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world.
— Elizabeth Janeway
Humor is an antidote to isolation.
— Elizabeth Janeway
Welcome to Dauntless
— Veronica Roth
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
Few cultures have not produced the idea that in some past era the world ran better than it does now.
— Elizabeth Janeway
The maxims for success laid out by the powerful are never much good as guides for those who aren't powerful.
— Elizabeth Janeway
Poets are the leaven in the lump of civilization.
— Elizabeth Janeway
Those who despair of life are not long for it.
— Elizabeth Janeway
Powerful people get away with things. That's one way to demonstrate their difference from the rest of us.
— Elizabeth Janeway
Flies purify the air, and plays--the morals.
— Anton Chekhov
But it pleased God to visit us then with death daily, and with so general a disease that the living were scarce able to bury the dead.
— William Bradford
Mythology is like gravity, inconvenient at times, but necessary for cohesion.
— Elizabeth Janeway
If you're frightened, you're out of luck.
— Bette Midler
Well, you know, I'm quite a reluctant writer. I'm not someone who set out to be a writer or really wanted to be.
— Jennifer Westfeldt
Individual advances turn into social change when enough of them occur ...
— Elizabeth Janeway