Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Elizabeth Janeway (American Writer)

Elizabeth Ames Janeway (1913–2005,) née Hall, was a best-selling American novelist in the 1940s who transformed herself into a critic, social historian, and feminist. Janeway served as president of the Authors Guild (1965–69) and as a judge for the National Book Awards and the Pulitzer.

Born in Brooklyn, New York City, Janeway studied for a year at Swarthmore College but had to leave during the Depression. She a year writing advertising copy, but then entered Barnard College in New York and obtained a B.A. in 1935.

Janeway’s popular novels included The Walsh Girls (1943,) Daisy Kenyon (1945,) and Leaving Home (1953.) Janeway increasingly focused on writing book reviews for the New York Times and other newspapers.

In the 1960s, Janeway became friends with feminist pioneers such as Betty Friedan, Kate Millett, and Gloria Steinem. She wrote Man’s World, Woman’s Place: A Study of Social Mythology (1971,) a definitive book on issues that the feminist movement was raising. Her other nonfiction books with feminist themes include Their Changing Roles (1973,) Between Myth and Morning: Women Awakening (1974,) Powers of the Weak (1980,) Cross Section: From A Decade of Change (1982,) and Improper Behavior: When and How Misconduct Can Be Healthy for Society (1987.)

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I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just be. It’s wonderful to have someone like that around, you always feel you can count on them. You can go away and come back, you can change your mind and your hairdo and your politics, and when you get through doing all these upsetting things, you look around and there they are, just the way they were, just being.
Elizabeth Janeway
Topics: Thought

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