Quotes by Schreiner, Olive

Of all cursed places under the sun, where the hungriest soul can hardl >>

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Everything has two sides -- the outside that is ridiculous, and the in >>

Quotations about School

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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. They are nicely adapted machines for experimenting on the question, Into how little space a human being can be crushed? I have seen some souls so compressed that they would have fitted into a small thimble, and found room to move there -- wide room. A woman who has been for many years at one of those places carries the mark of the beast on her till she dies.

Schreiner, Olive