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

- Elizabeth Janeway

I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just be. It's wonderful to have some…

- Elizabeth Janeway

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 th…

- Elizabeth Janeway

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.

- Elizabeth Janeway

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 tr…

- Elizabeth Janeway

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

- Elizabeth Janeway

Myth, legend, and ritual ... function to maintain a status quo. That makes them singularly bad in coping with change, indeed counterproductive, for c…

- Elizabeth Janeway

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

- 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.

- Elizabeth Janeway