Olive Schreiner
# Olive Schreiner

Olive Emilie Albertina Schriner (24 de março de 1855 - 11 de dezembro de 1920), foi uma escritora e feminista sul-africana.
       - No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.
          - Olive Schreiner in: Olive Schreiner Letters: 1871-1899 - Página 46, Olive Schreiner, ‎Richard Rive - Oxford University Press, 1988 - 409 páginas
       - I saw a woman sleeping. In her sleep she dreamt Life stood before her, and held in each hand a gift - in the one Love, in the other Freedom. And she said to the woman, 'Choose!‎
          - "Life~s Gifts (1886)" in "An Olive Schreiner reader: writings on women and South Africa" - página 148, Olive Schreiner, Editor Carol Barash, Editora Taylor & Francis, 1987, ISBN 0863581188, 9780863581182, 261 páginas
       - It is not because of woman's cowardice, incapacity, nor, above all, because of her general superior virtue, that she will end war when her voice is fully and clearly heard in the governance of states — it is because, on this one point, and on this point almost alone, the knowledge of woman, simply as woman, is superior to that of man; she knows the history of human flesh; she knows its cost; he does not
          - "Woman and Labor" - página 178, Olive Schreiner, Kessinger Publishing, 2005, ISBN 1417936460, 9781417936465, 308 páginas