# Quote — Olive Schreiner, The Story of an African Farm

> “The meanest girl who dances and dresses becomes something higher when her children look up into her face and ask her questions. It is the only education we have and which they cannot take from us”

- Author: [Olive Schreiner](https://www.leafyquotes.com/olive-schreiner.md)
- Book: [The Story of an African Farm](https://www.leafyquotes.com/olive-schreiner/the-story-of-an-african-farm.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Olive_Schreiner#The_Story_of_an_African_Farm_(1883)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/olive-schreiner/the-story-of-an-african-farm/the-meanest-girl

## More from this book

> “On the path to truth, at every step, you set your foot down on your own heart.”

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/olive-schreiner/the-story-of-an-african-farm/on-the-path.md)

> “If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?”

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/olive-schreiner/the-story-of-an-african-farm/if-the-bird.md)

> We have been so blinded by thinking and feeling that we have never seen the World.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/olive-schreiner/the-story-of-an-african-farm/we-have-been.md)