List of Elizabeth Janeway Quotes

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.

Humor Is An Antidote To Isolation.

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?

Poets Are The Leaven In The Lump Of Civilization.

Though We Do Not Have Many Poets, We Certainly Have More Than We Deserve, For We Deserve None At All. It Is Ourselves That We Are Hurting By Our Stupidity And Ignorance Of Poetry.

We Don't Get Offered Crises, They Arrive.

As Long As Mixed Grills And Combination Salads Are Popular, Anthologies Will Undoubtedly Continue In Favor.

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.

If History Is Really Relevant In Today's World, The Proposition Doesn't Command Much Respect. Perhaps The Past Is A Different Country, But If So No One Much Wants To Travel There.

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.

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.

The Maxims For Success Laid Out By The Powerful Are Never Much Good As Guides For Those Who Aren't Powerful.