If one is going to change things, one has to make a fuss and catch the eye of the world. Elizabeth Janeway More Quotes by Elizabeth Janeway More Quotes From Elizabeth Janeway reaction isn't action - that is, it isn't truly creative. Elizabeth Janeway reactions creative action Mistrust must be acted on, and effective action by the ruled is not solitary and singular, but joint and repeated. Elizabeth Janeway activism joints action Art is a framework, a kind of living trellis, on which public dreaming can shape itself. Elizabeth Janeway shapes dream art 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. Elizabeth Janeway philosophical wine world Myth, legend, and ritual ... function to maintain a status quo. That makes them singularly bad in coping with change, indeed counterproductive, for change is the enemy of myth. Elizabeth Janeway legends change enemy Can one consider controversy without falling into it? Elizabeth Janeway controversy conflict fall we expect definitions to tell us not only what is, but what to do about it; to show us how the world fits together and how its different parts connect and work. ... A label is the first step toward action. Elizabeth Janeway labels different together those who despair of life are not long for it. Elizabeth Janeway despair long 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. Elizabeth Janeway family father children I am not sure how many "sins" I would recognize in the world. Some would surely be defused by changed circumstances. But I can imagine none that is more irredeemably sinful than the betrayal, the exploitation, of the young by those who should care for them. Elizabeth Janeway betrayal wisdom advice Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the efforts and the demands of others. Elizabeth Janeway personal women shadow history
