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“It's funny because the most sane women I've ever met are my mom and my grandmothers. I think you have to be incredibly sane and self-aware to function in relatively insane environments.”

Thinking Self Environment Mom Mets Function My Mom Insane Grandmother Sane My Grandmother

Author:Jenny Lawson

“I thought, If I'm an ancestor and grandmother when I'm twenty-five, I should go peacefully to the real time when I'm an ancestor and a grandmother.”

Ifs Should Real Five Twenties Grandmother Ancestor Twenty Five

Author:Agnes Varda

“My great grandmother threw herself in front of a bus. The police tried to say she was committed suicide but the family knew she was just trying to stop civil rights.”

Trying Humor Funny Rights Fronts Police Suicide Committed Civil Rights Grandmother Bus Great Grandmother

Author:Anthony Jeselnik

“Franny Armstrong is a mother of three and a grandmother of four. Her husband supports her imagination and has the patience of a saint. She's been writing since she was a child, creating plays to act out in front of the neighborhood children.”

Writing Children Play Mother Three Imagination Support Four Fronts Husband Creating Saint Grandmother Neighborhood Armstrong

Author:Franny Armstrong

“My shape reminds me a lot of my grandmother, whom I was really close to. She died when I was 13, and we have a really similar body type, the squat New England woman who can roll out dough and bring in your lawnmower. That's kind of the vibe of my body, and I'm into it.”

Kind Body Type Shapes England Died Grandmother My Grandmother New England Dough Squat Body Types

Author:Lena Dunham

“I was extremely close with my mother and my grandmothers, we shared our lives - fully, honestly - and it was heightened as each succumbed to cancer. Little was hidden between us. No time. And what was hidden, turned inward. I made a vow to speak. Speak or die.”

Littles Made Mother Dies Speak Our Lives Cancer Honestly Grandmother Inward My Grandmother Vow

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“I remember as a child, my grandmother read to me Silent Spring. It was incomprehensible to me that there could be a world without birdsong.”

World Children Remember Spring Silent Grandmother My Grandmother Birdsong Silent Spring

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.”

“I hope to live long enough to be the great-grandmother of all agitators.”

Long Enough Grandmother Great Grandmother Hope To Live

Author:Mother Jones

“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 mother and my grandmother are pioneers of Mexican cuisine in this country, so I grew up in the kitchen. My mom, Zarela Martinez, was by far my biggest influence and inspiration - and toughest critic.”

Country Inspiration Mother Influence Grew Mom Grew Up Critics My Mom Kitchen Grandmother My Grandmother Mexican Pioneers Cuisine

Author:Aaron Sanchez

“I used to listen to the soap operas with my grandmother.”

Used Grandmother Opera My Grandmother Soap Soap Operas

Author:Bob Edwards

“My grandmother was utterly convinced I'd wind up as the Archbishop of Canterbury. And, to be honest, I've never entirely ruled it out.”

Honest Wind Ambition Convinced Being Honest Grandmother My Grandmother Canterbury

Author:Hugh Grant

“Neither my father or mother, grandfather or grandmother, great grandfather or great grandmother, nor any other relation that I know of, or care a farthing for, has been in England these one hundred and fifty years; so that you see I have not one drop of blood in my veins but what is American.”

Knows Years Has Beens Care Mother Father Blood Hundred England Relation Fifty Grandmother Grandfather Veins Great Grandfather Great Grandmother

Book:The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“I play the sort of character who would sell his grandmother for career advancement, something I've come across a lot with actors.”

Play Character Actors Careers Sells Grandmother Advancement

Author:Hugh Grant

“The challenging of repression by a new generation of activists - from Malala Yousafzai to Pussy Riot - across the globe reminded us how many women are still fighting for basic human rights. Our great-grandmothers' struggle in all its shocking detail seemed so relevant.”

“When I look in the mirror, I don't see my Dad, I see my grandmother. For a while it was my mother looking back at me. If only it was my Dad.”

Ifs Looks Mother Dad Mirrors My Dad Grandmother Looking Back My Grandmother

Author:Colin Firth

“Ever since time began: What song is not about love? Whether it's about love from man to woman or parent to child, or grandmother to granddaughter... It just goes on and on. Or whether it's the love of one's country.”

Men Children Country Song Parent Goes On Grandmother Parent Child Granddaughter

Author:PJ Harvey

“My grandmother was also an active member of the tenants association and a staunch supporter of the Democratic Party, and both of my parents were extremely liberal, so I think I grew up in a household that was very politically conscious - we all watched the elections on TV, and we watched the debates. So it was an awareness that we were raised with, and as we grew into young adults, we just naturally became politically active. It was just understood that it was important, that it was our responsibility.”

“My love of storytelling comes from oral tradition, the stories from my grandmother and conversations with [my] mother. The world is full of discussions of condensation, drifts, misunderstanding, repetition. These are the materials I work with. My debt is to these women.”

World Stories Mother Materials Conversation Tradition Debt Storytelling Discussion Grandmother Repetition My Grandmother Misunderstanding Oral Tradition Condensation

Author:Lucrecia Martel

“The sense of being Jewish never left me, but when my grandmother died, I rebelled against Judaism as I knew it then, which was Orthodox. I saw the rituals, a lot of them, as very male, for a long time.”

Long Left Saws Long Time Died Males Grandmother Orthodox Ritual My Grandmother Judaism Mother Died

Author:Marge Piercy

“My grandmother was very important to me. She gave me my religious education. She gave me a sense of the female side of Judaism, of the rich store of stories and legends of the women of the schtetl.”

Important Stories Sides Religious Rich Female Stores Grandmother Legends My Grandmother Judaism Religious Education

Author:Marge Piercy

“I was raised in the church by my grandmother who made sure we went to Sunday School, read the Bible and went to church every Sunday. Every night we read Bible stories before we went to bed.”

Made Stories School Night Church Bed Raised Grandmother Sunday Every Night My Grandmother Sunday School Bible Stories

Author:Torii Hunter

“My mother made sure we stayed involved in the church and the things of God. My relationship with Christ came about through that and the influences of my mother and grandmother helped my faith to grow.”

Made Mother Grows Christ Church Influence Involved Grandmother Mother And Grandmother

Author:Torii Hunter

“If the Word truly became flesh, then God had not only a mother, but also a grandmother, cousins, great-aunts, and weird uncles. If the Word truly dwelt among us, then he was part of a family that, like most, was fairly dysfunctional, a mix of the good and bad, the saintly and the sinful, the glorious and the not so glorious. And this is such good news for us.”

Ifs Mother News Flesh Glorious Grandmother Uncles Good News Cousin Aunt Good And Bad Great Aunt

Author:Robert Barron

“You don't have to be in "Who's Who" to know what's what.”

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Book:You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson

Source: You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson

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

Made Dying Grandmother My Grandmother

Author:Hugh Leonard

“My grandmother, she's been the positive portion of my life the entire time. She raised us Baptist, and when I got old enough to say I didn't want to go to church, she didn't force me. She was cool.”

Want Enough Force Church Raised Grandmother Portions My Grandmother Baptists

Author:Curtis Jackson

“Spending so much time on the road, I get to fart all the time. Then when it's, like, Thanksgiving dinner and I'm sitting with my grandmother, I can't fart for, like, two hours.”

I Can Two Hours Sitting Dinner Spending Grandmother My Grandmother Fart Thanksgiving Dinner

Author:Tom DeLonge

“One can't found a novel theology on Nothing, and nothing is so secure a foundation as a contradiction. Look at the great successes of the past--they say their deities are the masters of all the universes, and yet that they require grandmothers to defend them, as if they were children frightened by poultry. Or that the authority that punishes no one while there exists a chance for reformation will punish everyone when there is no possibility anyone will become the better for it.”

Source: Shadow & Claw: The First Half of 'The Book of the New Sun'

“I absolutely will not allow anyone to call me grandmother. They can call me Auntie Joan, Dee-Dee, Cho-Cho, anything but grandmother. It pushes a woman almost to the grave.”

Graves Grandmother Call Me Auntie

Author:Joan Crawford

“I was brought up by a Victorian Grandmother. We were taught to work jolly hard. We were taught to prove yourself; we were taught self reliance; we were taught to live within our income. You were taught that cleanliness is next to Godliness. You were taught self respect. You were taught always to give a hand to your neighbour. You were taught tremendous pride in your country. All of these things are Victorian values. They are also perennial values. You don't hear so much about these things these days, but they were good values and they led to tremendous improvements in the standard of living.”

“Feminism wasn’t supposed to make us miserable. It was supposed to make us free; to give women the power to shape their fortunes and work for a more just world. Today, women have choices that their grandmothers could not have imagined. The challenge lies in recognizing that having choices carries the responsibility to make them wisely, striving not for perfection or the ephemeral all, but for lives and loves that matter.”

“Maybe our grandmothers weren't as stupid as we thought. The family, volunteer work, religion, shaping the hearts and minds of the next generation-maybe all that can't be reduced to just 'shining floors and wiping noses.'”

Mind Heart Next Generations Stupid Shining Noses Grandmother Volunteer Heart And Mind Next Generation Volunteer Work

Author:Myriam Miedzian

“My grandmother and both my parents worked in Bollywood.”

Parent Grandmother My Grandmother Bollywood

Author:Rohit Shetty

“To my mother, I was everything. To my father, nothing at all. To my grandmother, I was a daily reminder of loves long lost.”

Long Mother Father Lost Grandmother My Grandmother Reminders

Author:Les Lye

“It hit me that being hip was a full-time job, and I was only a part-timer. I couldn't hide forever that I liked county fairs, particularly the goat booth at the 4-H tent, or that I once spent a week with my grandmother at her house in the giant retirement community of Sun City, Arizona, and it was one of the most carefree times of my life.”

Jobs House Community Cities Sun Forever Week Fairs Hips Giants Grandmother Retirement My Grandmother County Goats Tents Arizona Carefree Time Of My Life Full Time Jobs Timer County Fair

Author:Jancee Dunn

“My grandfather, Harry Ferguson, was a butcher in Hill of Beath; so even though my grandparents lived in some poverty, we got loads of beef. My grandmother, Meg, was a fine Scottish cook who did slow cooking.”

Poverty Fine Cooking Hills Cooks Grandmother Load Grandfather Grandparent My Grandmother My Grandfather Scottish Beef Butchers Meg Ferguson

Author:Kenneth Cranham

“I was lucky enough to realize my dream. When I was a little kid in Santa Barbara, sitting on the floor in my grandmother's house, dreaming of maybe one day working for Walt Disney, and to have that dream come true, I think that's pretty remarkable.”

Thinking Littles Enough Dream Kids House Realizing One Day Lucky Sitting Remarkable Grandmother My Grandmother Dreams Come True Little Kid Santa Walt Barbara Maybe One Day Santa Barbara

Author:Floyd Norman

“My grandfather was a teacher, my grandmother on my mom's side, four of my aunts, my sister-in-law, my best friend. So I've always, my entire life, been surrounded by teachers, and because of that I've had a tremendous respect for what teachers can do, the power that they can have.”

Law Sides Can Do Teacher Four Mom My Mom Grandmother My Sister Grandfather My Grandmother My Best Friend Aunt My Grandfather In-laws Sister In Law

Author:Michelle Rhee

“I'm the only person in my family who can't sing. My grandmother was an opera singer and all of her kids were in church five days a week - or between church and vocal lessons at Carnegie Hall. But my mom had her first studio experience recording on my album. She's used to having to fill the room, so she had to adjust to the microphone and not sing opera.”

Firsts Persons Kids Used Church Rooms Five Week Mom Lessons My Family Albums Studios My Mom Singers Grandmother Halls Opera My Grandmother Vocal Microphones Carnegie Opera Singers Carnegie Hall

Author:Le1f

“I don't think my grandmother would ever be convinced, but my family was convinced that I was convinced, and actually, they came around. My mother ended up going to fundraisers in Chicago that were raising money to send to the students in the South and actually, over years, she went to an elevated train bus station one day at 6:00 a.m. to hand out leaflets protesting the war.”

Thinking Years War Hands Mother Students One Day My Family Train South Convinced Grandmother Stations Chicago Bus My Grandmother Fundraiser Raising Money

Author:Diane Nash

“The great thing about civility is that it does not require you to agree with or approve of anything. You don't even have to love your neighbor to be civil. You just have to treat your neighbor the same way you would like your neighbor to treat your grandmother, or your child.”

Way Children Doe Love You Like You Treats Our Children Agree Neighbor Great Things Your Children Grandmother Civility Your Grandmother Love Your Neighbor

Author:Barbara Brown Taylor

“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

“I've always written. There's a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the street from the store and kept it when my grandmother's papers were destroyed. I'd written some essays. I loved poetry, still do. But I really, really loved it then.”

Men Years Stills Written Streets He Man Paper Stores Destroyed Grandmother Journal My Grandmother Papers Essays

Author:Maya Angelou

“Through my grandmother's stories always life moved, moved heroically toward an end. Nobody ever cried in my grandmother's stories. They worked, or schemed, or fought. But no crying. When my grandmother died, I didn't cry, either. Something about my grandmother's stories (without her ever having said so) taught me the uselessness of crying about anything."”

Said Ends Stories Cry Taught Died Moved Grandmother Cried My Grandmother Uselessness Mother Died

Book:The Collected Works of Langston Hughes

Source: The Collected Works of Langston Hughes

“I'm like a bumper car. When I did an infomercial I was fodder for every TV comedy show. I couldn't get a job. People said I was a huge joke. I've been a joke so many times. I've been on my way out since I started, but I'm strong-willed. My mother is so much tougher than I am and my grandmother is so much tougher than my mother.”

People Way Said Shows Jobs Mother Strong Comedy Car Tvs Huge Jokes My Way Grandmother My Grandmother Bumper Strong Willed Fodder Comedy Shows Infomercials

Author:Cher

“You need to understand this. We did not think we owned the land. The land was part of us. We didn't even know about owning the land. It is like talking about owning your grandmother - you can't own your grandmother. She just is your grandmother. Why would you talk about owning her?”

Thinking Knows Needs Talking Land Grandmother Your Grandmother

Book:Neither Wolf Nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads with an Indian Elder

Source: Neither Wolf Nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads with an Indian Elder

“One of the saddest sentences I know is "I wish I had asked my mother about that." Or my father. Or my grandmother. Or my grandfather. As every parent knows, our children are not as fascinated by our fascinating lives as we are.”

Knows Children Mother Father Wish Parent Our Children Sentences Fascinating Grandmother Fascinated Grandfather My Grandmother My Grandfather Saddest

Author:William Zinsser

“A lot of times people say, 'You act like a grandmother, you're just totally laid back, nothing bothers you.'”

People Bother Grandmother Laid Back

Author:Chamique Holdsclaw

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