We have been so blinded by thinking and feeling that we have never seen the World. — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand. — 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
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
A child sees everything, looks straight at it, examines it, without any preconceived idea; most people, after they are about eleven or… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
Marriage has been a very rich and beautiful development of my life. Month by month as we live together we seem to… — 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
