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Elizabeth Janeway was an American author born on October 7, 1913, and passed away on January 15, 2005. Her works spanned various literary genres, including novels, poetry, and drama. Janeway was known for her unique literary style and profound insights into human nature.

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

World Doe Ideas Past Culture Eras Ran

Book:Man's World Woman's Place

Source: Man's World Woman's Place

“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.”

World Belief Opinion Philosophical Wine Fishes Ancestor Creeds Disputes

Book:Improper behavior

Source: Improper behavior

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

Ifs World Eye Change

Author:Elizabeth Janeway

“we expect definitions to tell us not only what is, but what to do about it; to show us how the world fits together and how its different parts connect and work. ... A label is the first step toward action.”

World Firsts Different Shows Action Together Steps Fit Definitions Labels First Steps

Author:Elizabeth Janeway

“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.”

Ifs World Want Different Country Today Past History Command Relevant Propositions Today's World Different Countries Want To Travel

Book:Improper behavior

Source: Improper behavior

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

Ifs World Writing Government Nations Views History Generations Deserve World History

Book:Between Myth and Morning: Women Awakening

Source: Between Myth and Morning: Women Awakening

“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.”

Thinking World Way Firsts Believe Powerful Power Weak Structure Enormous Working It

Author:Elizabeth Janeway

“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.”

“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.”

Ifs Men World Firsts Womens Rights Men Women Default Charybdis Scylla

Book:Man's world, woman's place: a study in social mythology

Source: Man's world, woman's place: a study in social mythology

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

World Made Available Ghost Great Gifts Inarticulate

Author: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.”

World Has Beens Ideas Action Barriers Acquiescence

Author:Elizabeth Janeway

“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.”

World Should I Can Wisdom Care Young Sin Imagine Advice Changed Circumstances Insight Betrayal Not Sure Exploitation

Book:Cross sections from a decade of change

Source: Cross sections from a decade of change

About the Author

Born: October 7, 1913
Died: January 15, 2005
Known for: Author
Quotes: 52

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