It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well… than to kill ten thousand. – Olive Schreiner
Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist. – Olive Schreiner
Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them. – Olive Schreiner
We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse’s knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep. – Olive Schreiner
Men 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 Schreiner
Everything has two sides – the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn. – Olive Schreiner
Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it. – Olive Schreiner
How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper. – Olive Schreiner
