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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Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.
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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 fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.
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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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There is no terra incognito left.
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The greatest hits in some weird way marks the end of something.
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They usually have a piano in every nursing home, and I always wanted to perform for whoever would listen when I learned something. I grew to understand very early that a lot of these people who are in nursing homes are elderly and don't have a lot of things that give them joy from day to day.
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I never say I am a guru.
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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.
