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Vote: | 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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Vote: | 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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Vote: | My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those that are sad. |
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Vote: | Of all cursed places under the sun, where the hungriest soul can hardly pick up a few grains of knowledge, a girls boarding-school is the worst. They are called finishing schools, and the name tells accurately what they are. They finish everything but imbecility and weakness, and that they cultivate. |
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Vote: | 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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Vote: | 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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Vote: | Slavery may, perhaps, be best compared to the infantile disease of measles; a complaint which so commonly attacks the young of humanity in their infancy, and when gone through at that period leaves behind it so few fatal marks; but which when it normally attacks the fully developed adult becomes one of the most virulent and toxic of diseases, often permanently poisoning the constitution where it does not end in death. |
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Vote: | The troubles of the young are soon over; they leave no external mark. If you wound the tree in its youth the bark will quickly cover the gash; but when the tree is very old, peeling the bark off, and looking carefully, you will see the scar there still. All that is buried is not dead. |
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Vote: | 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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Olive Schreiner (Olive Emilie Albertina Schreiner) (March 24, 1855 – December 11, 1920) was a South African writer. She was born in Wittebergen, South Africa, the ninth child of Gottlob and Rebecca Schreiner.
Her first novel, The Story of an African Farm, was published in 1883 under the pseudonym Ralph Iron. It was an immediate success and has become recognised as one of the first feminist novels. Not long after this she met the sexologist Havelock Ellis with whom she had a close friendship up until her death.
In 1891 she published Dreams, a collection of allegorical and visionary writings. The next year she met Samuel Cronwright whom she would later marry in 1894.
Her next novel, Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland (1897), was an attack on Cecil Rhodes, who she had met in 1890.
Her most important political work is Woman and Labour (1911).
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