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Powerful people get away with things. That's one way to demonstrate their difference from the rest of us.
Elizabeth Janeway
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Elizabeth Janeway
Age: 91 †
Born: 1913
Born: October 7
Died: 2005
Died: January 15
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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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Power is the ability not to have to please.
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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.
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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.
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Humor is an antidote to isolation.
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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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Individual advances turn into social change when enough of them occur.
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what society requires from art ... is that it function as an early warning system.
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Art is a framework, a kind of living trellis, on which public dreaming can shape itself.
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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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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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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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reaction isn't action - that is, it isn't truly creative.
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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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If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world.
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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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We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
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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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Few cultures have not produced the idea that in some past era the world ran better than it does now.
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