“The young (Somali) women were very inquisitive as to European customs, and listened attentively to descriptions of the manners, education, and clothes of white ladies, as if out to complete their strategic education with the knowledge of how the males… — Karen Blixen Copy Share Image
“In a world of fools, I was, I think, to him one of the greater fools.” — Karen Blixen Copy Share Image
“The barbarian loves his own pride, and hates, or disbelieves in, the pride of others. I will be a civilized being, I will love… — Karen Blixen Copy Share Image
“Within this enclosed women's world, so to say, behind the walls and fortifications of it, I felt the presence of a great ideal, without which the garrison would not have carried on so gallantly; the idea of a Millennium when women were to reign supreme in the world. The old mother at such times would take on a new shape,… — Karen Blixen Copy Share
“Between the river in the mellow English landscape and the African mountain ridge, ran the path of this life. ... The bowstring was released… — Karen Blixen Copy Share Image
“I general brzo isprazni čašu. Jer kamo razuman čovjek može pobjeći kad ne može vjerovati u svoj razum? Bolje biti pijan nego lud.” — Karen Blixen Copy Share Image
“Up at Meru I saw a young Native girl with a bracelet on, a leather strap two inches wide, and embroidered all over with very small turquoise-coloured beads which varied a little in colour and played in green, light blue, and ultramarine. It was an extraordinarily live thing; it seemed to draw breath on her arm, so that I wanted… — Karen Blixen Copy Share
“Still, we often talked on the farm of the Safaris that we had been on. Camping places fix themselves in your mind as if… — Karen Blixen Copy Share Image
If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the… — Karen Blixen Copy Share Image
“Gud skapte mannen før kvinnen. Det er sånn som når jeg skriver. Først kladder jeg.” — Karen Blixen Copy Share Image
“Where, My Lord, is music bred—upon the instrument or within the ear that listens? The loveliness of woman is created in the eye of… — Karen Blixen Copy Share Image
“Hard and cruel though it may seem," said the Cardinal, "yet we, who hold our high office as keepers and watchmen to the story,… — Karen Blixen Copy Share Image
