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Elizabeth Janeway Quotes

Can one consider controversy without falling into it? Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

What society requires from art ... is that it function as an early warning system Picture Quote #1

Today, what most people live in, or with, is the less-than-nuclear family. Working fathers are absent from home during most of the day, the children are schooled outside it, and practically all women who work for money must go outside to earn their living Picture Quote #1

Love between women is seen as a paradigm of love between equals, and that is perhaps its greatest attraction Picture Quote #1

Such simplicity cannot be taught. But it can be denied and lost Picture Quote #1

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We put up with a lot to be saved from chaos. We always have Picture Quote #1

Poets are the leaven in the lump of civilization Picture Quote #1

Those who despair of life are not long for it Picture Quote #1

What society requires from art... is that it function as an early warning system Picture Quote #1

Mythology is like gravity, inconvenient at times, but necessary for cohesion Picture Quote #1

Whatever class and race divergences exist, top cats are tom cats Picture Quote #1

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Individual advances turn into social change when enough of them occur Picture Quote #1

We don’t get offered crises, they arrive Picture Quote #1

Power is the ability not to have to please Picture Quote #1

Great writers leave us not just their works, but a way of looking at things Picture Quote #1

Humor is an antidote to isolation Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just be. It’s wonderful to have someone like that around, you always feel you can count on them. You can go away and come back, you can change your mind and your hairdo and your politics, and when you get through doing all these upsetting things, you look around and there they are, just the way they were, just being Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections? Picture Quote #1

If one is going to change things, one has to make a fuss and catch the eye of the world Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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A problem that presents itself as a dilemma carries an unfortunate prescription: to argue instead of act Picture Quote #1

Powerful people get away with things. That’s one way to demonstrate their difference from the rest of us Picture Quote #1

The idea of power as a possession, whose asset can be banked and drawn on when needed, comes easy to a society whose rules grow out of the methods of finance capitalism Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world Picture Quote #1

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Can one consider controversy without falling into it? (Elizabeth Janeway Quotes) 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 Quotes) What society requires from art ... is that it function as an early warning system. (Elizabeth Janeway Quotes) Today, what most people live in, or with, is the less-than-nuclear family. Working fathers are absent from home during most of the day, the children are schooled outside it, and practically all women who work for money must go outside to earn their living (Elizabeth Janeway Quotes) Love between women is seen as a paradigm of love between equals, and that is perhaps its greatest attraction (Elizabeth Janeway Quotes) Such simplicity cannot be taught. But it can be denied and lost (Elizabeth Janeway Quotes) We put up with a lot to be saved from chaos. We always have (Elizabeth Janeway Quotes) Poets are the leaven in the lump of civilization (Elizabeth Janeway Quotes) Those who despair of life are not long for it (Elizabeth Janeway Quotes) What society requires from art... is that it function as an early warning system (Elizabeth Janeway Quotes) Mythology is like gravity, inconvenient at times, but necessary for cohesion (Elizabeth Janeway Quotes) Whatever class and race divergences exist, top cats are tom cats (Elizabeth Janeway Quotes) Individual advances turn into social change when enough of them occur (Elizabeth Janeway Quotes) We don’t get offered crises, they arrive (Elizabeth Janeway Quotes) Power is the ability not to have to please (Elizabeth Janeway Quotes) Great writers leave us not just their works, but a way of looking at things (Elizabeth Janeway Quotes) Humor is an antidote to isolation (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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just be. It’s wonderful to have someone like that around, you always feel you can count on them. You can go away and come back, you can change your mind and your hairdo and your politics, and when you get through doing all these upsetting things, you look around and there they are, just the way they were, just being (Elizabeth Janeway Quotes) 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 (Elizabeth Janeway Quotes) Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections? (Elizabeth Janeway Quotes) If one is going to change things, one has to make a fuss and catch the eye of the world (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 (Elizabeth Janeway Quotes) A problem that presents itself as a dilemma carries an unfortunate prescription: to argue instead of act (Elizabeth Janeway Quotes) Powerful people get away with things. That’s one way to demonstrate their difference from the rest of us (Elizabeth Janeway Quotes) The idea of power as a possession, whose asset can be banked and drawn on when needed, comes easy to a society whose rules grow out of the methods of finance capitalism (Elizabeth Janeway Quotes) 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 (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 (Elizabeth Janeway Quotes) If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world (Elizabeth Janeway Quotes)

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