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.

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

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

Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.

When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken.

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.