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My Grandmother Quotes

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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  (My Grandmother Quotes) I can’t cook! It’s genetic. My grandmother can’t cook, my mother can’t cook. I was raised to believe you eat because your body needs fuel for energy, so I eat super foods  (My Grandmother Quotes) Just from being with my grandmother, my maturity escalated. And now I’m in tune to the needs of people. It was a large responsibility, taking care of a human being  (My Grandmother Quotes) My grandmother was probably the first person who I thought was beautiful. She was incredibly stylish, she had big hair, big cars. I was probably 3 years old, but she was like a cartoon character. She’d swoop into our lives with presents and boxes, and she always smelled great and looked great  (My Grandmother Quotes) My grandmother’s generation and generations before always saw beyond the horizons of their own lives and their own circumstances. They believed that opportunity created today would lead to prosperity tomorrow  (My Grandmother Quotes) I didn’t grow up in a regular upbringing. I ended up at my grandmother’s house past a certain age, so I took care of things myself. I moved out of home when I was 16  (My Grandmother Quotes) In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career  (My Grandmother Quotes) I had a messy signature as a child, and my grandmother said this suggested I had no regard for other people. She was right  (My Grandmother Quotes) My granddaddy died when I was about 6 years old, I think. And my grandmother took a job cooking in the school lunchroom. So she did great. She made $18 a week  (My Grandmother Quotes) My sister played the piano. She’s two years older than me, and I always wanted to play something. So my grandmother got the guitar for me, and showed me a couple of chords to start off. And then I got me a book. Next thing you know, I was playing along with sister  (My Grandmother Quotes) Being a mom, I love to play with my kids and have fun with them, but I also love fashion. My mom and both of my grandmothers have always been into fashion, so it’s been around us our whole lives  (My Grandmother Quotes) In every person’s face, there is one place that seems to express them most accurately. With my grandmother, you always looked at her mouth  (My Grandmother Quotes) My grandmother gave birth to 13 children and I come from a long line of women who gave birth in their 40s  (My Grandmother Quotes) My grandmother would croon over every scrap of meat on a sparerib like a medieval relic hunter musing on the knucklebone of a saint  (My Grandmother Quotes) Im at a slightly higher risk for type 2 diabetes, and my grandmother had diabetes. My hemoglobin a1c, which is one of the measures, started being a little high when I was drinking a ton of that coconut water  (My Grandmother Quotes) As a child, I was raised with my grandmother, alongside all my cousins, and the kitchen was always full  (My Grandmother Quotes) My grandmothers apartment had significance for me, even as a child, and I was fascinated by that world that was disappearing  (My Grandmother Quotes) I just managed to convince my grandmother that it was a worth while that was something to do, you know, and when I did finally get the guitar, it didn’t seem that difficult to me, to be able to make a good noise out of it  (My Grandmother Quotes) I always say I lived my life with my grandmother. She was emotionally stable, and she was very encouraging to me  (My Grandmother Quotes) I grew up at my grandmother’s house, and she had a beautiful garden. I used to hate mowing the lawn and weeding, which is what you do when you’re a kid. I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens  (My Grandmother Quotes) The best gift I was ever given was the arts. My mum gave me those on a silver platter. Growing up, her and my grandmother would take me to ballets, classical concerts, even smoky jazz clubs I wasn’t supposed to be in!  (My Grandmother Quotes) My parents didn’t have records, they didn’t have radios, and they didn’t listen to music. My grandmother was my main connection to art and music. She could play piano very well, and she had perfect pitch  (My Grandmother Quotes) Literary characters, like my grandmother’s apparitions, are fragile beings, easily frightened; they must be treated with care so they will feel comfortable in my pages  (My Grandmother Quotes) I guessed my mother figured if my father got right down to the task of eating he wouldn’t be so inclined to jump up and strangle my grandmother  (My Grandmother Quotes) Could I tell them I was sorry their loved one was dead, when he’d tried to kill me? There was no rule of etiquette for this; even my grandmother would have been stymied  (My Grandmother Quotes) My grandmother told me that her father used to ask her a riddle: What must you break apart in order to bring a family close together? Bread, of course  (My Grandmother Quotes) My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible  (My Grandmother Quotes) I’ve always liked long, flowing clothes,... I used to rummage around in my grandmother’s trunks trying to find them. I love the feeling of chiffon and lace  (My Grandmother Quotes) When I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I couldn’t write and thought adult handwriting was a mysterious scribble. When I was 14, my grandmother gave me a typewriter and I started writing in a different way  (My Grandmother Quotes) The most savory grape, the one that produces the wines with best texture and aroma, the sweetest and most generous, doesn’t grow in rich soil but in stony land; the plant, with a mother’s obstinacy, overcomes obstacles to thrust its roots deep into the ground and take advantage of every drop of water. That, my grandmother explained to me, is how flavors are concentrated in the grape  (My Grandmother Quotes)
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