No woman has the right to marry a man if she has to bend herself out of shape for him. She might wish to, but she could never be to him with all her passionate endeavor what the other woman… — 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
“Only the sea is like a human being . . .always moving, always something deep in itself is stirring it. It never rests; it… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
“The meanest girl who dances and dresses becomes something higher when her children look up into her face and ask her questions. It is… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
