Quotes by Janeway, Elizabeth

Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; >>

I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit >>

The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I'm concerned it >>

Quotations about Contemplation

One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and inv >>

The national distrust of the contemplative temperament arises less fro >>

One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness witho >>

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.

Janeway, Elizabeth