It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand.
Olive SchreinerThere are only two things that are absolute realities, love and knowledge, and you can't escape them.
Olive SchreinerEverything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.
Olive SchreinerMy feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.
Olive SchreinerWe all enter the world little plastic beings, with so much natural force, perhaps, but for the rest--blank; and the world tells uswhat we are to be, and shapes us by the ends it sets before us. To you it says--Work; and to us it says--Seem! To you it says--As you approximate to man's highest ideal of God, as your arm is strong and your knowledge great, and the power to labour is with you, so you shall gain all that human heart desires. To us it says--Strength shall not help you, nor knowledge, nor labour. You shall gain what men gain, but by other means. And so the world makes men and women.
Olive Schreiner