Elizabeth Janeway Quotes
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.

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We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.
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I was devastated when I got the review for my first book. The book came out a couple years before the women's movement broke through, and people were putting it down, asking, 'Why does the woman in this book need to get a divorce? Why can't she just shut up and be happy?'
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The message I like to convey to women and girls across the globe is that there is no glass ceiling.
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The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.
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I respect all women who came before me to blaze trails into the workplace for us.
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The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.
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Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure.
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One of my theories is that men love with their eyes; women love with their ears.
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The cool thing is that, unlike film, the theatre roles for women get better and better as you get older.
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What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?
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There are really very few roles for women in films in which you can also make a living.
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I think society, in general, is hard on women, period.
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In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.
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I've always loved pinup art, and I've always enjoyed drawing women. I think it was a conscious decision that has resulted in me getting almost exclusive work on comics where the main character is female.
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I know the true meaning of getting by by the skin of my teeth; I do. It doesn't matter whether you've got money or you haven't, whether you're famous or not. This is the case for all women, actually; you have to carry on. You always have to carry on. And you can, because you have to.
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They know they're going to look beautiful, and I don't think women should look like costumes. They shouldn't look like fashion victims.
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Women have been kicking ass for centuries.
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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If we are to make progress, we must not repeat history but make new history. We must add to inheritance left by our ancestors.
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The two million or so residents who live beneath the Heathrow flight path are accustomed to the noise. However, they are right to feel that any expansion would represent an unacceptable broken promise.
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'We're very close to immortal, you know. The time mechanism keeps it that way.' 'No, I hadn't known,' said Boone. 'Inside the time bubble we do not age. We age only when we are outside of it.'
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In a world where shows have to keep going while the priorities change, I have to stay flexible.
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In a sick world even the hale are sick.
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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.