Author: Olive Schreiner

Cited by

• Patrick White (1)
  • IN: The Aunt's Story (1948) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: She thought of the narrowness of the limits within which a human soul may speak and be understood by its nearest of mental kin, of how soon it reaches that solitary land of the individual experience, in which no fellow footfall is ever heard.
    FROM: The Story of an African Farm, (1883), Novel, South Africa
• Doris Lessing (1)
  • IN: Martha Quest (1952) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I am so tired of it, and also tired of the future before it comes.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, South Africa
• Cherise Wolas (1)
  • IN: The Resurrection of Joan Ashby (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It does not matter what you choose -- be a farmer, businessman, artist, what you will -- but know your aim, and live for that one thing. We have only one life. The secret of success is concentration; wherever there has been a great life, or a great work, that has gone before. Taste everything a little, look at everything a little; but live for one thing. Anything is possible to a [woman] who knows [her] end and moves straight for it, and for it alone. I will show you what I mean. If she has made blunders in the past, if she has weighted herself with a burden which she must bear to the end, she must but bear the burden bravely, and labor on... If she does all this, if she waits patiently, if she is never cast down, never despairs, never forgets her end, moves straight towards it, bending men and things most unlikely to her purpose, she must succeed at last.
    FROM: Story of an African Farm, (1883), Novel, South Africa