Olive Schreiner Quotes

• Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can’t bring down.

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• Give us labour and the training which fits for labour! We demand this, not for ourselves alone, but for the race.

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• We are cursed, Waldo, born cursed from the time our mothers bring us into the world till the shrouds are put on us.

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• This pretty ring… I will give it to the first man who tells me he would like to be a woman. It is delightful to be a woman; but every man thanks the Lord devoutly that he isn’t one.

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• No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.

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• 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.

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• There was never a great man who had not a great mother.

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• Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them.

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• 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.

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• Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.

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• 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.

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• It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well… than to kill ten thousand.

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• How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.

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• Everything has two sides – the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.

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Birth:	24th March, 1855
Death:	11th December, 1920
Nationality:	African
Profession:	Author, Novelist

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