We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I haven't got ambitions. Actually, I'm determined not to die until I get very old. I want to be a great-great-great-grandmother. — Charlotte Rampling Copy Share Image
My great-grandmother taught my mom to cook and she passed down the recipes to me. — Teresa Giudice Copy Share Image
We should all have one person who knows how to bless us despite the evidence, Grandmother was that person to me. — Phyllis Grissim-Theroux Copy Share Image
“I screwed up guys, real big time; holy great grandmother of all screw-ups!” — Satyen Nabar Copy Share Image
The saying was that Madam Walker made the money, and her daughter - my great-grandmother - spent it. — A'Lelia Bundles Copy Share Image
There's a rumor that my great-grandmother was 6'7''. I don't know if it's necessarily true, but that's a big woman. — Mohamed Bamba Copy Share Image
“Is it possible that my great-grandmother would not want me to know why and how she left?” — Gaiutra Bahadur Copy Share Image
My great-grandmother lived to be 100 years old, so I got to know her. She always sent us birthday cards that had… — Dana Perino Copy Share Image
My Grandmother would say, 'Make sure you look good. Make sure you speak well. Make sure you remain that Southern gentleman that… — Jamie Foxx Copy Share Image
I've got a lot of experience with anorexia - my grandmother and great-grandmother suffered from it, and I had a lot of… — Keira Knightley Copy Share Image
A Georgia peach, a real Georgia peach, a backyard great-grandmother's orchard peach, is as thickly furred as a sweater, and so fluent… — Melissa Fay Greene Copy Share Image
One day. my kids are gonna be like, 'What do you mean, gay people couldn't get married?' Just like most of my… — Miley Cyrus Copy Share Image
My great-grandmother, who was known as Nana, passed away before I was born, but she and my mother were very, very close.… — Busy Philipps Copy Share Image
If becoming a grandmother was only a matter of choice, I should advise every one of you straight away to become one.… — Hannah Whitall Smith Copy Share Image
Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. Don't eat anything with more than five ingredients, or ingredients you can't pronounce. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Raised to believe that her life would be, as her great-grandmother's was said to have been, one ceaseless round of fixed and… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Neither my father or mother, grandfather or grandmother, great grandfather or great grandmother, nor any other relation that I know of, or… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I was a bartender for a long time, so I know how to make drinks, but I'm more likely to offer them… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“My Great Grandmother Morrison fixed a book-rest to her spinning wheel so that she could read while she was spinning, or so… — Mary Lawson Copy Share Image
“I am in the night of the stars. The moon is new and I see my way by focusing on the light… — H Raven Rose Copy Share Image
You think Bernadette Maguire killed him?” “Uh… no. She’s, like I said, she’s old.” “Old people can kill people too.” “I know,… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
I had a great grandmother who believed in so many strange superstitions. She used to tell the future from the things that… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
All the women that are first born daughters in my family are named Mary, but we've all been given nicknames. I don't… — Mamie Gummer Copy Share Image
“Someone must be having a big party, Shyla thought as she turned into her neighborhood, the rhythmic salsa beat of Latin music… — Barbara Casey Copy Share Image
“Nor need I dwell at any length upon the personal communication which passed between Doctor Bataille, Albert Pike, Gallatin Mackey, Sophia Walder,… — Arthur Edward Waite Copy Share Image
When the feminist movement was at its zenith in the late 60's and early 70's, there was a lot of moving away… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“That there is a silent genocide of women and girls in the homes, communities and just everywhere is not a new story.… — Betty Makoni Copy Share Image
I think mothers and daughters are meant to give birth to each other, over and over; that is why our challenges to… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
My great grandfather just passed away, and my great grandmother is about to. I usually am fine with keeping myself together, my… — Guardian Copy Share Image
“If any one thing in my experience, more than another, served to deepen my conviction of the infernal character of slavery, and… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“their base ingratitude to my poor old grandmother. She had served my old master faithfully from youth to old age. She had… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“It isn't often one gets the chance to entertain one's great-great-great-grandmother. Sassinak.” — Anne McCaffrey Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image
“They’ll say great-great-grandmother built this, and they’ll be right.” — Marion Bekoe Copy Share Image
“She looked like the great grandmother of every whore in the world. The devil got his money's worth that night.” — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves. — Constance Baker Motley Copy Share Image
A grandma's name is little less in love than is the doting title of a mother. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I'd have had them first. — Lois Wyse Copy Share Image
