Olive Schreiner Quotes


God said, 'When one man and one woman shine together, it makes the most perfect light.


Citations

Schreiner, Olive. Dreams. T. Fisher Unwin, 1890.

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Olive Schreiner
Olive Schreiner
  • Born: March 24, 1855
  • Died: December 11, 1920
  • Nationality: South African
  • Profession: Novelist, Suffragist, Political Activist

Olive Schreiner was a South African author, anti-war campaigner and intellectual. She is best remembered today for her novel The Story of an African Farm (1883), which has been highly acclaimed. It deals boldly with such contemporary issues as agnosticism, existential independence, individualism, the professional aspirations of women, and the elemental nature of life on the colonial frontier.