Laura Trussell

“It was worth many hardships to
see forty German professors try to mount
forty recalcitrant mules. My own horseman¬
ship, as already hinted, is nothing to “ write
home about ”, but compared to those German
professors I am a centaur.”
― Jane Ellen Harrison, Reminiscences of a Student's Life

“Thus among the Carrier Indians 33 when a man wants to become a Lulem, or Bear, however cold the season, he tears off his clothes, puts on a bearskin and dashes into the woods, where he will stay for three or four days.”
― Jane Ellen Harrison, Ancient Art and Ritual

“The word tělětē means rite of growing up, becoming complete.”
― Jane Ellen Harrison, Ancient Art and Ritual

“But sacrifice does not mean “death” at all.”
― Jane Ellen Harrison, Ancient Art and Ritual