Elizabeth Janeway Quotes - Page 2

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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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• 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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• 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.

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  Dog, Zoos, Taken

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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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• I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just be.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Contemplative Life, People, Honey

  Elizabeth Janeway (1964). “Accident”

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

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Creative, Action, Reactions

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

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• 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?

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  Growing Up, Animal, Connections

  Elizabeth Janeway (1982). “Cross sections from a decade of change”, William Morrow & Co

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• How can you communicate your thoughts or demonstrate your hypotheses by conventional means when all the values and standards that you want to challenge are built into those means? Science and new technology today like to declare that they encourage 'lateral thinking,' new ways of seeing and putting data together - but all systems have an inbuilt resistance to what has not been programmed into them through the premises on which their rules are based.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Mean, Technology, Thinking

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

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

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Love Is, Sexuality, Paradigm

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

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

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  Joints, Action, Activism

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

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

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Cat, Race, Class

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• 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

  World, Ghost, Made

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

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  Dream, Art, Shapes

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

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

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  Arguing, Problem, Dilemma

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

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

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  Powerful, Guides, Maxims

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

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• 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.

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  Powerful, Believe, Thinking

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• 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

  Family, Children, Father

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• If history is really relevant in today's world, the proposition doesn't command much respect. Perhaps the past is a different country, but if so no one much wants to travel there.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Country, Past, History

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

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• Can one consider controversy without falling into it?

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  Fall, Conflict, Controversy

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

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• We don't get offered crises, they arrive.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Crisis

  Elizabeth Janeway (1982). “Cross sections from a decade of change”, William Morrow & Co

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• 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

  Hurt, Ignorance, Poetry

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

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Writing, Long, Favors

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• Sex cannot be contained within a definition of physical pleasure, it cannot be understood as merely itself for it has stood for too long as a profound connection between human beings.

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  Sex, Long, Profound

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

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• I am not sure how many "sins" I would recognize in the world. Some would surely be defused by changed circumstances. But I can imagine none that is more irredeemably sinful than the betrayal, the exploitation, of the young by those who should care for them.

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  Wisdom, Betrayal, Advice

  Elizabeth Janeway (1982). “Cross sections from a decade of change”, William Morrow & Co

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