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.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Baby, Power, Long

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• Admiro a las personas aptas para la vida contemplativa. Pueden sentarse dentro de sí mismas como miel en un tarro y simplemente ser. Es maravilloso tener a alguien así cerca, siempre sientes que puedes contar con él. Puedes irte y volver, puedes cambiar de opinión y de peinado y de política, y cuando terminas de hacer todas esas cosas molestas, miras a tu alrededor y ahí están, tal como eran, simplemente siendo.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Contemplative Life, People, Upset

  Elizabeth Janeway (1964). “Accident”

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• Power is the ability not to have to please.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Inspirational, Memorable, Power

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• 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

  Powerful, Ideas, Ifs

  Elizabeth Janeway (1971). “Man's world, woman's place: a study in social mythology”

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

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Change, Eye, World

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• Myth, legend, and ritual ... function to maintain a status quo. That makes them singularly bad in coping with change, indeed counterproductive, for change is the enemy of myth.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Change, Enemy, Legends

  Elizabeth Janeway (1981). “Powers of the weak”, William Morrow & Co

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• Unless I am what I am and feel what I feel - as hard as I can and as honestly and truly as I can - then I am nothing. Let me feel guilty ... don't try to educate me ... don't protect me.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Trying, Authenticity, Guilty

  Elizabeth Janeway (1953). “Leaving Home”, p.254, Feminist Press at CUNY

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

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Cohesion, Gravity, Mythology

  Elizabeth Janeway (1971). “Man's world, woman's place: a study in social mythology”

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• The common impulse is not to sustain a marriage by finding satisfaction elsewhere, but to end the marriage and set up a new one which will provide the comfort lacking in the first.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Marriage, Comfort, Satisfaction

  Elizabeth Janeway (1971). “Man's World Woman's Place”

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• el poder no es algo que se pueda poseer. Pero si se cree que es tal cosa, perderlo se convierte en una posibilidad a temer. Ese miedo, creo, es una de las razones de las oscuras proyecciones de un futuro catastrófico que están tan extendidas, en nuestra sociedad dual. Los poderosos actuales, comprometidos con la polarización, esperan que cualquier nuevo acuerdo derroque al que les dio autoridad; que los últimos sean los primeros y los primeros los últimos, inversión de papeles en todas partes, los hombres como esclavos, las mujeres como amas, en una revolución de la contradicción.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Change, Powerful, Fear

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• Nos encontramos en un doble aprieto. Se espera de nosotras que nos sintamos inferiores no sólo por ser mujeres, sino también por ser mayores.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Aging, Feels, Expected

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

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Writing, Government, Views

  Elizabeth Janeway (1974). “Between Myth and Morning: Women Awakening”, New York : Morrow, 1974, 1975 printing.

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

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Way, Great Writers

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• By setting the passenger seat of my car far back, and opening the glove compartment, I nestle in a very large sheet of thick fiberboard. It's big enough to hold a table easel, my big palette and a water container. Winter is not going to lock me indoors!

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Winter, Water, Car

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• those who despair of life are not long for it.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Long, Despair

  Elizabeth Janeway (1980). “Powers of the weak”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• La idea del poder como posesión, cuyo activo se puede depositar en un banco y utilizar cuando sea necesario, resulta fácil para una sociedad cuyas reglas surgen de los métodos del capitalismo financiero.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Power, Ideas, Finance

  Elizabeth Janeway (1987). “Improper behavior”, William Morrow

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• We older women who know we aren't heroines can offer our younger sisters, at the very least, an honest report of what we have learned and how we have grown.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Advice, Honest, Heroines

  Elizabeth Janeway (1974). “Between Myth and Morning: Women Awakening”, New York : Morrow, 1974, 1975 printing.

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• 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

  Ideas, Acquiescence, World

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

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Powerful, Differences, People

  Elizabeth Janeway (1987). “Improper behavior”, William Morrow

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• 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.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Believe, Thinking, Appreciate

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• Man's world' and 'woman's place' have confronted each other since Scylla first faced Charybdis. ... if women have only a place, clearly the rest of the world must belong to someone else and, therefore, in default of God, to men.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Men, World, Scylla

  Elizabeth Janeway (1971). “Man's world, woman's place: a study in social mythology”

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

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Enough, Individual, Social

  Elizabeth Janeway (1981). “Powers of the weak”, William Morrow & Co

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• 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.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Philosophical, Wine, World

  Elizabeth Janeway (1987). “Improper behavior”, William Morrow

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

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Past, Ideas, Doe

  Elizabeth Janeway (1971). “Man's World Woman's Place”

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

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Art, Warning, Function

  Elizabeth Janeway (1974). “Between Myth and Morning: Women Awakening”, New York : Morrow, 1974, 1975 printing.

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