For those of us who have a ground of knowledge which we cannot transmit to outsiders, it is perhaps more profitable to act fearlessly than to argue.
Olive SchreinerGod said, 'When one man and one woman shine together, it makes the most perfect light.
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 SchreinerThere are only two things that are absolute realities, love and knowledge, and you can't escape them.
Olive SchreinerA little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.
Olive Schreiner