No woman who is a woman says of a human body, 'it is nothing' ... On this one point, and on this… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
To us, from the beginning, Nature has been but a poor plastic thing, to be toyed with this way or that, as… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
Men's bodies are our women's works of art. Given to us power of control, we will never carelessly throw them in to… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
God said, 'When one man and one woman shine together, it makes the most perfect light. — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
It is the swimmer who first leaps into the frozen stream who is cut sharpest by the ice; those who follow him… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
We all enter the world little plastic beings, with so much natural force, perhaps, but for the rest--blank; and the world tells… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them. — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them.… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
We have always borne part of the weight of war, and the major part ... Men have made boomerangs, bows, swords, or… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
There is no door at which the hand of woman has knocked for admission into a new field of toil but there… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
No woman has the right to marry a man if she has to bend herself out of shape for him. She might… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
A word may become so defiled by bad use that it will take a century before it can be purifed, and brought into use… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
No woman who is a woman says of a human body, 'it is nothing' ... On this one point, and on this point alone,… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it.… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
“Marriage for love is the beautifulest external symbol of the union of souls, marriage without it is the uncleanliest traffic that defiles the world.” — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn. — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
To us, from the beginning, Nature has been but a poor plastic thing, to be toyed with this way or that, as man happens… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
They are called finishing-schools and the name tells accurately what they are. They finish everything. — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
“I think,' said Lyndall, 'that he is like a thorn-tree, which grows up very quietly, without any one's caring for it, and one day… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
“This dirty little world full of confusion, and the blue rag, stretched overhead for a sky, is so low we could touch it with… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other,… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
For those of us who have a ground of knowledge which we cannot transmit to outsiders, it is perhaps more profitable to act fearlessly… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
