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reaction isn't action - that is, it isn't truly creative.
Elizabeth Janeway
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Elizabeth Janeway
Age: 91 †
Born: 1913
Born: October 7
Died: 2005
Died: January 15
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Feminist
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Few cultures have not produced the idea that in some past era the world ran better than it does now.
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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.
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Powerful people get away with things. That's one way to demonstrate their difference from the rest of us.
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If one is going to change things, one has to make a fuss and catch the eye of the world.
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what society requires from art ... is that it function as an early warning system.
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Humor is an antidote to isolation.
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Whatever class and race divergences exist, top cats are tom cats.
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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.
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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!
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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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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.
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We are in a double bind. We are expected to feel inferior not only as women, but because we are old.
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We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
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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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We put up with a lot to be saved from chaos. We always have.
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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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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.
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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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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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Unless I am what I am and feel what I feel - as hard as I can and as honestly and truly as I can - then I am nothing. Let me feel guilty ... don't try to educate me ... don't protect me.
Elizabeth Janeway
