Jane Ellen Harrison Quotes

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Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious — friendship and learning.

Jane Ellen Harrison
[The Women's Movement] is not an attempt to arrogate man's prerogative of manhood; it is not even an attempt to assert and emphasize women's privilege of womanhood; it is simply the demand that in the life of woman, as in the life of man, space and liberty shall be found for a thing bigger than either manhood or womanhood — for humanity.

Jane Ellen Harrison
To be womanly is one thing, and one only; it is to be sensitive to man, to be highly endowed with the sex instinct; to be manly is to be sensitive to woman.

Jane Ellen Harrison
Ritual is the bridge by which man passes, the ladder by which he climbs from earth to heaven.... We must not pull down the ladder till we are sure the last angel has climbed.

Jane Ellen Harrison
Ritual makes, as it were, a bridge between real life and art.

Jane Ellen Harrison
Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Jane Ellen Harrison
It was always the dream of my childhood to sit upon an iceberg with a bear.

Jane Ellen Harrison
I have elsewhere tried to show that Art is not the handmaid of Religion, but that Art in some sense springs out of Religion, and that between them is a connecting link, a bridge, and that bridge is Ritual.

Jane Ellen Harrison
Science has given us back something strangely like a World-Soul.

Jane Ellen Harrison
If I think of Death at all it is merely as a negation of life, a close, a last and necessary chord. What I dread is disease, that is, bad, disordered life, not Death, and disease, so far, I have escaped.

Jane Ellen Harrison