Jane Harrison quotes

" Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning. " # Marriage # Love # Friends and Friendship

" 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. " # Men and Women # Sex # Men

" A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone. " # Children # Arts and Artists # Writers and Writing

" Old age equalizes- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world. " # Age and Aging # Action # Equality