"I suppose the most absolutely delicious thing in life is to feel a thing needs you, and to give at the moment it needs. Things that don't need you, you must love from a distance."

Olive Schreiner

Source: The Quotable Woman

Now Time has fled - the world is strange,
Something there is of pain and change;
My books lie closed upon the shelf;
I miss the old heart in myself.

Adelaine Proctor

Source: The Quotable Woman

"Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving."

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Source: The Quotable Woman

"I sometimes think that the gods have united human beings by some mysterious principle, like the according notes of music. Or is it as Plato has supposed, that souls originally one have been divided, and each seeks the half it lost?"

Lydia M. Child

Source: The Quotable Woman

"...the only thing that makes one place more attractive to me than another is the quantity of heart I find in it."

Jane Welsh Carlyle

The Quotable Woman