No woman who is a woman says of a human body, 'it is nothing' ... On this one point, and on this point alone, the knowledge of woman, simply as woman, is superior to that of man; she knows the history of human flesh; she knows its cost; he does not.
Olive SchreinerHow hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.
Olive SchreinerThe secret of success is concentration ... Taste everything a little, look at everything a little; but live for one thing.
Olive SchreinerWe have always borne part of the weight of war, and the major part ... Men have made boomerangs, bows, swords, or guns with which to destroy one another; we have made the men who destroyed and were destroyed! ... We pay the first cost on all human life.
Olive Schreiner