Olive Schreiner Quote

We have always borne part of the weight of war, and the major part... Men have made boomerangs, bows, swords, or guns with which to destroy one another; we have made the men who destroyed and were destroyed!... We pay the first cost on all human life.


Woman and Labor (1911)


We have always borne part of the weight of war, and the major part... Men have made boomerangs, bows, swords, or guns with which to destroy one...

We have always borne part of the weight of war, and the major part... Men have made boomerangs, bows, swords, or guns with which to destroy one...

We have always borne part of the weight of war, and the major part... Men have made boomerangs, bows, swords, or guns with which to destroy one...

We have always borne part of the weight of war, and the major part... Men have made boomerangs, bows, swords, or guns with which to destroy one...