68 Quotes by Elizabeth Janeway

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

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

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.

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.

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

We put up with a lot to be saved from chaos. We always have.

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.

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

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.