We are a race of women that of old knew no fear and feared no death, and lived great lives and hoped great hopes; and if today some of us have fallen on evil and degenerate times, there moves in us yet the throb of the old blood.
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 SchreinerIt is the swimmer who first leaps into the frozen stream who is cut sharpest by the ice; those who follow him find it broken, and the last find it gone. It is the men or women who first tread down the path which the bulk of humanity will ultimately follow, who must find themselves at last in solitudes where the silence is deadly.
Olive SchreinerThere are only two things that are absolute realities, love and knowledge, and you can't escape them.
Olive Schreiner