Elizabeth Janeway - Rest Quotes

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'Man's world' and 'woman's place' have confronted each other since Scylla first faced Charybdis.... if women have only a place, clearly the rest of the world must belong to someone else and, therefore, in default of God, to men.

Elizabeth Janeway

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.

Elizabeth Janeway

Powerful people get away with things. That's one way to demonstrate their difference from the rest of us.

Elizabeth Janeway