Men's bodies are our women's works of art. Given to us power of control, we will never carelessly … - Olive Schreiner

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If I was not a film-maker I'd probably be a musician. I like Kanye West, Jay-Z, R&B, classical, jazz and all kinds of music, but I'd say soulful World Music is my favorite.

Olive Schreiner

Men's bodies are our women's works of art. Given to us power of control, we will never carelessly throw them in to fill up the gaps in human relationships made by international ambitions and greeds. . . War will pass when intellectual culture and activity have made possible to the female an equal share in the governance of modern national life; it will probably not pass away much sooner; its extinction will not be delayed much longer.

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Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it - but there is.

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