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“My grandmother and my two aunts were an exhibition in resilience and resourcefulness and black womanhood. They rarely talked about the unfairness of the world with the words that I use now with my social justice friends, words like "intersectionality" and "equality", "oppression", and "discrimination". They didn't discuss those things because they were too busy living it, navigating it, surviving it.”

Women Black Women Intersectionality Janet Mock

Author:Janet Mock

Source: Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love So Much More

“My grandmother asks me to race down the street, I'm going to try to beat her. And I'll probably enjoy it. Competitive to a fault, sometimes.”

Trying Sometimes Success Asks Winning Enjoy Race Streets Beats Faults Ask Me Grandmother My Grandmother

Author:Derek Jeter

“My grandmother certainly does not care for celebrity.”

Doe Care Grandmother My Grandmother

Author:Prince William

“My grandmother could never have written a memoir, so 'The Gravedigger's Daughter' is a homage to her life, and to the lives of other young women of her generation, which are so rarely articulated.”

Young Written Generations Daughter Memoir Grandmother Young Women My Grandmother Lives Of Others Homage Gravediggers

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“My grandmother did not come to see me till a month after my birth. I was born seven years after my only sister and my birth was a big disappointment for her. In it there is a message that I understand very well now about the discrimination against the girl child. My uncles and other relatives are against encouraging girls. My parents are more open. They back me all the way.”

Way Years Wells Children Bigs Girl Parent Born Months Birth Messages Seven Disappointment Discrimination Grandmother Uncles My Grandmother Seven Years Girl Child

Author:Saina Nehwal

“My grandmother didn't live to see us begin our lives in public service. But she probably would have thought it extraordinary that just two generations after she arrived in San Antonio, one grandson would be the mayor and the other would be on his way - the good people of San Antonio willing- to the United States Congress.”

“My grandmother died of natural causes. Or as my family calls it murdered by the lord.”

Causes Natural Lord My Family Died Grandmother My Grandmother Mother Died

Author:Dane Cook

“My grandmother flew only once in her life, and that was the day she and her new husband ascended into the skies of Victorian London in the wicker basket of a hot-air balloon. They were soon to emigrate to Canada, and the aerial ride was meant to be a last view of their beloved England.”

Lasts Views Air Sky Husband England Hot London Beloved Canada Grandmother Meant To Be My Grandmother Flew Baskets Balloons Victorian Were Meant To Be Hot Air Air Balloons Hot Air Balloons

Author:Alan Bradley

“My grandmother gave birth to 13 children and I come from a long line of women who gave birth in their 40s.”

Children Long Lines Birth Grandmother My Grandmother Long Lines

Author:Debra Winger

“My grandmother got her law degree from Syracuse University in roughly 1911 and later co-founded with her husband an investment banking firm on Wall Street known as Lebenthal & Co.”

Law Known Streets Wall Husband Degrees Investment University Firm Grandmother My Grandmother Banking Investment Banking Syracuse

Author:Buzz Bissinger

“My grandmother had a love which found in me so totally its complement, its goal, its constant lodestar, that the genius of great men, all the genius that might ever have existed from the beginning of the world, would have been less precious to my grandmother than a single one of my defects.”

Love Sadness Genius Grandmother

Author:Marcel Proust

Source: The Guermantes Way

“My grandmother had a Miss Margaret's School of Dance to teach tap and ballet to kids, but I never studied it. I was raised a Mormon and they're dancing fools. It's the only vice they have - dancing.”

Kids School Teach Missing Fool Dancing Raised Vices Grandmother Ballet My Grandmother

Author:Michelle Shocked

“My grandmother had a picture of herself as a close-lipped, silent, reserved individual without curiosity, who never asked personal questions. Actually, of course, she was a talkative, jolly, interminably curious woman, who loved people, and who enjoyed the personal details of their lives almost as much as they did themselves.”

People Courses Individual Silent Curiosity Details Curious Enjoyed Grandmother My Grandmother Reserved Jolly Talkative Personal Question

Author:Molly Picon

Source: So Laugh A Little

“My grandmother had great influence on me. She was secretary of state in the 1970's, and that's when I was born. She showed me the importance of public service, and she was admired by people regardless of their political party.”

People States Political Born Party Influence Importance Grandmother Secretary My Grandmother Political Parties Public Service Great Influence

Author:Stephanie Herseth Sandlin

“My grandmother had the most dramatic effect on my life because she set me in one direction, and I had to go back the other direction for my sanity, and for my ability to be a social human being.”

Humans Social Human Beings Ability Effects Dramatic Grandmother Sanity My Grandmother One Direction

Author:James Earl Jones

“My grandmother had this high-tech security system - a rusty nail she used to lock the door.”

Used Doors Security Grandmother Locks Nails My Grandmother Security Systems

Author:Quincy Jones

“My grandmother has kept all of his stuff in a drawer. This one notebook was particularly chilling. He's [howard Brookner] writing to his parents knowing he has a death sentence; his movies are how he'll live on.”

Writing Stuff Parent Knowing Sentences Grandmother My Grandmother Chill Notebook Drawers Death Sentence

Author:Aaron Brookner

“My grandmother I admired even more [than mother]. She was an Irish lady and a very kind-hearted person. She had a lot of talent, she painted extremely well. She was quite a strong factor in my life.”

Wells Kind Persons Mother Strong Talent Factors Grandmother My Grandmother Hearted Kind Hearted

Author:Edmund Hillary

“My grandmother influenced me so deeply.”

Grandmother My Grandmother

Author:Jan Karon

“My grandmother instilled in me a toughness that comes with survival. She was a tough lady and never truly enjoyed her life. She would always worry about things and I would tell her that it wasn't going to get her anywhere and it didn't. I wasn't even that smart back then, but I knew that worrying about everyone else wasn't good for her health. As Latinos, we stress and worry so much about the future when the future is today. As long as we protect what's good in our lives, we will be all right.”

Long Today Worry Our Lives Protect Survival Smart Tough Stress Enjoyed Grandmother My Grandmother Latino Toughness Stress And Worry Tough Lady

Author:George Lopez

“My grandmother instilled in me two important lessons: I was just as good as anyone else, and education was my salvation. Fortunately, I was able to get scholarships to excellent schools, but I was one of the lucky ones. All of this is what draws me to anti-poverty organizations like Oxfam.”

Two Important Able School Poverty Lessons Lucky Draws Organization Salvation Excellent Grandmother My Grandmother Scholarship Important Lessons Oxfam

Author:Joy Bryant

“My grandmother is a Holocaust survivor. Some heroes of mine have long been the Jewish Partisans, these young people who just went into the woods with whatever guns and bombs and what not they could get their hands on, and just would fight Nazis, and try to help people escape.”

People Trying Long Helping Hands Young Fighting Mines Hero Gun Woods Bombs Grandmother Survivor Holocaust Nazi My Grandmother Partisans Holocaust Survivor

Author:Margaret D. Klein

“My grandmother is a little Cuban woman who cooks all day and speaks Spanish. Your grandmother watches pay-per-view porn." "She used to watch the Weather Channel, but she said there wasn't enough action." -Ranger and Stephanie”

Littles Said Enough Action Used Speak Views Pay Watches Weather Cooks Grandmother My Grandmother Cuban Rangers Your Grandmother

Author:Janet Evanovich

Source: To the Nines

“My grandmother is basically blind, but she can make out the lighter parts, like my skin and hair. She says, 'I can see you, because you have no pants on.' So I'll continue to wear no pants so that my grandma can see me.”

I Can Hair Skins Blind Grandmother Pants My Grandmother Grandma Lighters Make Out My Grandma

Author:Lady Gaga

“My grandmother is the person who inspires me the most.”

Persons Inspire Grandmother My Grandmother

Author:Victoria Azarenka

“My grandmother is this amazingly theatrical woman. She acted like a movie star, as far as looks and attitude, kind of like Susan Hayward.”

Looks Kind Stars Attitude Grandmother My Grandmother Movie Star Theatrical

Author:Parker Posey

“My grandmother lived a remarkable life. She watched her nation fall to pieces; and even when she became collateral damage, she believed in the power of the human spirit. She gave when she had nothing; she fought when she could barely stand; she clung to tomorrow when she couldn’t find footing on the rock ledge of yesterday. She was a chameleon, slipping into the personae of a privileged young girl, a frightened teen, a dreamy novelist, a proud prisoner, an army wife, a mother hen. She became whomever she needed to be to survive, but she never let anyone else define her. By anyone’s account, her existence had been full, rich, important—even if she chose not to shout about her past, but rather to keep it hidden. It had been nobody’s business but her own; it was still nobody’s business.”

Inspirational Life

Author:Jodi Picoult

Source: The Storyteller

“My grandmother lived in a universe filled with life. It was impossible for her to conceive of any creature - even the smallest insect, let alone a human being - as insignificant. In every leaf, flower, animal, and star she saw an expression of a compassionate universe, whose laws were not competition and survival of the fittest but cooperation, artistry and thrift. . . .”

“My grandmother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house. It leaked, she contended, out of empty sockets if the wall switch had been left on. She would go around screwing in bulbs, and if they lighted up, she would fearfully turn off the wall switch and go back to her Pearson's or Everybody's, happy in the satisfaction that she had stopped not only a costly but dangerous leakage. nothing could ever clear this up for her.”

Ifs Years Turns House Left Clear Dangerous Wall Empty Satisfaction Horrible Latter Grandmother Suspicion Electricity My Grandmother Turn Off Bulbs Dripping Off The Wall Leakage

Author:James Thurber

“My grandmother lived to be 100 years old. Her grandmother was a slave, yet she was a college graduate in the Spellman class of 1917. She taught art for 50 years and she saved her Social Security checks for her children's education.”

Years Children Art Social Class Security Taught College Slave Saved Checks Grandmother Graduates My Grandmother Social Security College Graduates

Author:Spike Lee

“My grandmother lived with us for a short time while I was a child. Old people tend to be slightly more eccentric - they can behave the way they want.”

People Way Want Children Behave Grandmother My Grandmother Old People Eccentric Short Time

Author:Julie Walters

“My grandmother lives on a farm. And growing up, I assumed that the animals that I was eating and the animals that I was wearing all came from farms like my grandmother's. They all had names, they were all smothered with love, and they all lived to be very old.”

Names Animal Growing Up Growing Eating Grandmother Farms My Grandmother

Author:Ginnifer Goodwin

“My grandmother lives with my mother in a gorgeous house in the San Fernando Valley. I am afforded these luxuries, and I'm very young.”

Young Mother House Luxury Grandmother Valleys My Grandmother Gorgeous

Author:Kirsten Dunst

“My grandmother made dying her life's work.”

Made Dying Grandmother My Grandmother

Author:Hugh Leonard

“My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom was only eight when their father died.”

Made Home Mother Father Four Daughter Died Eight Grandmother Shelter Foxes My Grandmother Our Daughter Father Died

Author:Mary Augusta Ward

“My grandmother made sure that I went to church every Sunday. And shed come over and pick us boys up, and we would go to the Nazarene church. And back then, that was about as close to heaven as I ever got, because just the time to be able to spend with her, and she was very, very religious.”

Made Able Heaven Church Religious Boys Picks Grandmother Sunday Shed My Grandmother Nazarene

Author:John Mellencamp

“My grandmother, mother, and godmothers were all African-American Christian women. Some married, one widowed, some single mothers. And those who were not family members intervened and advocated for me when my mother and I could not do so. The legacy of godly womanhood I’ve inherited has taught me that the Bible is meant for more than studies. The Bible is meant to be lived out, and the gospel is a way of living and becoming.”

Bible African American Woman Heritage Womanhood Gospel

Author:Monét Robinson

Source: Morning By Morning Volume 1

“My grandmother passed at 104. She sang and wrote songs until she passed.”

Song Grandmother My Grandmother

Author:Rita Coolidge

“My grandmother played the piano, and I used to toddle over there and pick out little things that sounded good to me.”

Littles Used Picks Piano Grandmother Little Things My Grandmother

Author:Billy Strayhorn

“My grandmother prayed on her knees until she couldn’t. And sitting hunched over in her wheelchair in the waning hours of her life, she would say that her heart was always on its knees even though the ability of her body to do so had long passed. And as long as I am able, both my body and my heart will remain on their knees because that is the only way that my soul is able to stand on its feet.”

God Christian Faith Jesus Prayer Grandmother Submission Role Model

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“My grandmother raised five children during the Depression by herself. At 50, she threw her sewing machine into the back of a pickup truck and drove from North Dakota to California. She was a real survivor, so that's my stock. That's how I want my kids to be too.”

Want Children Real Kids Five Machines Raised California Grandmother Survivor My Grandmother Truck Sewing Dakota Pickups North Dakota Pickup Trucks

Author:Michelle Pfeiffer

“My grandmother really liked virgins. There's nothing wrong with virgins, there's a time and a place for that. I had other things on my mind... like Robert Plant.”

Mind Plant Grandmother Virgins My Grandmother Things On My Mind

Author:Tori Amos

“My grandmother refused to concede that any member of the family died of natural causes. An uncle's cancer in middle age occurred because all the suitcases fell off the luggage rack onto him when he was in his teens, and so forth. Death was an acquired characteristic.”

Age Causes Natural Middle Members Died Cancer Characteristics Grandmother Teens Uncles My Grandmother Middle Ages Suitcases Racks Luggage

Author:Renata Adler

Source: Speedboat

“My grandmother’s hands floated like wings of bone in the dark, then they were birds, then small disks of light and then bones again, and then it was dawn.”

Loss Family Black Dog Of Fate

Author:Peter Balakian

Source: Black Dog of Fate: An American Son Uncovers His Armenian Past

“My grandmother’s unkindness, for instance, was the result of repressed grief over three deaths: her parents, before she was twelve, and her firstborn child. I don’t recall ever seeing her smile. She was critical of everything and everyone. Table manners, posture, diction, wardrobe. My aunt, her mother’s staunchest defender, often reminded us that my grandmother suffered from accumulated sorrow, bottled up since childhood and cloaked in intellect and intolerance as she grew older. She was never able to grieve fully or mourn the amassed losses, my aunt had said. If we repress our grief, over time, it’s bound to harden the heart.”

Death Grief Sorrow Mourning Repressed Grief

Author:Nancy Cobb

Source: In Lieu of Flowers: A Conversation for the Living

“My grandmother said, ‘It doesn’t really matter where you had to go, where you got the ring, or where you played the Super Bowl, all that matters is that you put in the work, you deserved it, and you earned it.”

Life Death Fun Friendship Fiction Humour Friends Drama Community Building Eccentricities

Author:Vernon Davis

Source: Playing Ball: Life Lessons from My Journey to the Super Bowl and Beyond

“My grandmother said it very simply: "If you don't like dogs, you don't like humans, and vice versa." I really believe that.”

Ifs Believe Humans Said Dog Vices Grandmother My Grandmother Vice Versa

Author:Veronika Varekova

“My grandmother said sex was the best gift God ever gave to mankind-I think it is over rated.”

Humor Quotes Quotes For Life Brenda Winters

Author:Brenda Kay Winters

Source: Are You Sick?: Revised

“My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her among my influences.”

Kind Influence Singing Loud Grandmother My Grandmother

Author:Cassandra Wilson

“My grandmother spent her whole life working as a maid, a cook and a babysitter, barely scraping by, but still working hard to give my mother, her only child, a chance in life, so that my mother could give my brother and me an even better one.”

Giving Children Stills Hard Whole Mother Work Chance Brother Whole Life Cooks My Brother Grandmother My Grandmother Maids Only Child Babysitter Scraping Chances In Life

Author:Julian Castro

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