Quote by Olive Schreiner

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

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

genius has no limit of sex or race.

— Olive Schreiner

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

“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

Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.

— Olive Schreiner

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

They are called finishing-schools and the name tells accurately what they are. They finish everything.

— Olive Schreiner

“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

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

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

“Only the sea is like a human being . . .always moving, always something deep in itself is stirring it. It never rests; it…

— Olive Schreiner