qua women may remain, for the better continuance of life, subject to men; women as human beings demand to live as well as to continue life. To live effectively they must learn to know the world through and through, in order that, while side by side with men, they may fashion life to their common good." - Meaning and context.">
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Women qua women may remain, for the better continuance of life, subject to men; women as human beings demand to live as well as to continue life. To live effectively they must learn to know the world through and through, in order that, while side by side with men, they may fashion life to their common good.

— Jane Ellen Harrison

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Women qua women may remain, for the better continuance of life, subject to men; women as human beings demand to live as well as to continue life. To live effectively they must learn to know the world through and through, in order that, while side by side with men, they may fashion life to their common good." in the context of ""Homo Sum." Being a Letter to an Anti-Suffragist from an Anthropologist, 1900, p. 30" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Jane Ellen Harrison

About Jane Ellen Harrison

Jane Ellen Harrison (9 September 1850 – 15 April 1928) was a British classical scholar, linguist, and anthropologist.