There are only two things that are absolute realities, love and knowledge, and you can't escape them.
Olive SchreinerIf the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?
Olive SchreinerMy feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.
Olive SchreinerI think if I were dying and I heard of an act of injustice, it would start me up to a moment's life again.
Olive SchreinerHow hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.
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