# Quote — Sindiwe Magona, Mother to Mother

> There are not enough mothers during the day to force the children to go to school and stay there for the whole day. The mothers are at work. Or they are drunk. Defeated by life. Dead. We die young, these days.

- Author: [Sindiwe Magona](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sindiwe-magona.md)
- Book: [Mother to Mother](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sindiwe-magona/mother-to-mother.md)
- Page: 27
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sindiwe_Magona#Mother_to_Mother_(1998)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/sindiwe-magona/mother-to-mother/there-are-not

## More from this book

> The sun went and died in the west.

p. 125 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sindiwe-magona/mother-to-mother/the-sun-went.md)

> Unganyebelezeli, kuza kudlalwa!’ piped Mxolisi’s little voice, calling for daring and defiance. To look at him do the war cry of the Comrades, poised in a defiant stance, his tiny fist up in the air, couldn’t but send all those who heard him into paroxysms of laughter.

p. 103 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sindiwe-magona/mother-to-mother/unganyebelezeli-kuza-kudlalwa.md)

> No,’ the girl’s mother said quietly. ‘There were many people there. Looking. Some were even laughing. None stopped the crime, none. Until your son arrived on the scene.

p. 114 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sindiwe-magona/mother-to-mother/no-the-girls.md)