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Why don't we focus on what Afghan women can do? They can cook, bear children and pray. As I recall, that was fine for our grandmothers.

~Al Franken

Topics: Afghan Bear Children Cook Fine Focus Grandmothers Our Pray Recall Why Women

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Since the time of the witch burnings, the grandmothers and the healers and the midwives have been systematically targeted. And burned at the stake for hundreds of years, decimating whole communities.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Been Burned Communities Grandmothers Healers Hundreds Hundreds Of Years Since Stake Systematically Targeted Time Whole Witch Years

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And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Could Creative Flower Grandmothers Handed Hoped Letter Like More Mothers Never Often Our Plainly Read Sealed See Seed Spark Than Themselves

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It's the moms of this nation - single, married, widowed - who really hold this country together. We're the mothers, we're the wives, we're the grandmothers, we're the big sisters, we're the little sisters, we're the daughters. You know it's true, don't you? You're the ones who always have to do a little more.

~Ann Romney

Topics: Always Big Country Daughters Grandmothers Hold Know Little Married Moms More Mothers Nation Really Single Sisters Together True Who Wives You

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Jeff Sachs has the Millennium Villages. He spends $2.5 million in one village. It's an absolutely ridiculous model, because I've said that if you gave me $2.5 million, I can train 100 grandmothers, solar electrify 100 villages - 10,000 houses - and save you 100,000 litres of kerosene.

~Bunker Roy

Topics: Absolutely Because Gave Grandmothers He Houses Jeff Me Millennium Million Model Ridiculous Said Save Solar Train Village Villages You I Can

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Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was always very close to these hard-working, intelligent women.

~Carlos Fuentes

Topics: Always Both Brave Close Contrary Culture Grandmothers Hard-Working Intelligent Macho Mexico Very Were Widows Women Young

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With each generation, women's ability to live the lives they choose reaches a place their grandmothers never thought possible. But that doesn't mean everything is perfect or that our work is finished.

~Cathy Mcmorris Rodgers

Topics: Ability Choose Each Each Generation Everything Finished Generation Grandmothers Live Lives Mean Never Our Perfect Place Possible Thought Women Work

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Each new generation builds on the work of the previous one, gaining new perspective. New verbs are introduced. We Google strange and dangerous places. We tweet mindlessly to the cosmos. We Facebook our own grandmothers. I, for one, don't want to be left behind.

~Daniel H. Wilson

Topics: Behind Builds Cosmos Dangerous Each Facebook Gaining Generation Google Grandmothers Introduced Left New New Generation New Perspective Our Own Perspective Places Previous Strange Tweet Want Work

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If I can go three grandmothers back and find a slave, that means someone else can go three grandmothers back and find a slave owner. When you interrogate your histories, it forces you to rethink who you are and where you are.

~Dee Rees

Topics: Back Else Find Forces Go Grandmothers Histories Means Owner Rethink Slave Someone Three Where Who You Your I Can

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It was a very odd household, because the grandmothers were so different. Both of them had their own pianos. So it would be duelling pianos by grandmothers.

~Diane Cilento

Topics: Because Both Different Grandmothers Had Household Odd Own Pianos Them Very Were Would

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