A word may become so defiled by bad use that it will take a century before it can be purifed, and brought into use again.
Olive SchreinerMen are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it - but there is.
Olive SchreinerNo 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 could be to him without trying. Character will dominate over all and will come out at last.
Olive SchreinerThe secret of success is concentration ... Taste everything a little, look at everything a little; but live for one thing.
Olive SchreinerMen's bodies are our women's works of art. Given to us power of control, we will never carelessly throw them in to fill up the gaps in human relationships made by international ambitions and greeds ... War will pass when intellectual culture and activity have made possible to the female an equal share in the governance of modern national life; it will probably not pass away much sooner; its extinction will not be delayed much longer.
Olive Schreiner