68 Quotes by Elizabeth Janeway

individual advances turn into social change when enough of them occur ...

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

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!

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

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.

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.

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

We don't get offered crises, they arrive.

I have a problem about being nearly sixty: I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I'm thirty-one.