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“Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me.”

“What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in life. And, most importantly, cookies.”

“Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.”

“If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I'd have had them first.”

“A grandma's name is little less in love than is the doting title of a mother.”

“Posterity is the patriotic name for grandchildren.”

“Soon I will be an old, white-haired lady, into whose lap someone places a baby, saying, "Smile, Grandma!" - I, who myself so recently was photographed on my grandmother's lap.”

“The presence of a grandparent confirms that parents were, indeed, little once, too, and that people who are little can grow to be big, can become parents, and one day even have grandchildren of their own. So often we think of grandparents as belonging to the past; but in this important way, grandparents, for young children, belong to the future.”

“Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.”

“I don't think these women are stupid. I think they're selling a personality that's very marketable: Wouldn't it be fun if we were all gorgeous and didn't have a care? But creating a cultural icon out of someone who goes, I'm stupid, isn't it cute? makes me want to throw daggers at them! I want to say to them, My grandma did not fight for what she fought for, and my mother did not fight for what she fought for, so you can start telling women it's fun to be stupid. Saying that to young women, little girls, my daughter? It's not OK.”

“I loved their home. Everything smelled older, worn but safe; the food aroma had baked itself into the furniture.”