The antagonist in my coming-out story was my grandmother, a woman as xenophobic as she was homophobic.

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He watched his own grandmother, a woman with a high school education, work her way up to become a Vice President at a little community bank.

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Then came the day in September when his grandmother died and the woman known as Kekua reached out to him.

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Mentored by her grandmother, a tiny woman in wire-framed glasses and a tight perm, Liu trained rigorously as a performer, and developed the shrewd business skills that have lifted her family from poverty to prosperity.

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See, but what Barack also saw in his grandmother, he saw a woman who never complained.

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How can one woman mogul, age 71 and a grandmother, be considered cooler than a 58-year-old whose endorsement has sold billions of dollars in products and earned her billions as well?

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The Meredith of the case is a white mother, but one of the original plaintiffs also was the black grandmother of district students, a woman who had long been a local civil rights activist.

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My grandmother, she was an amazing woman.

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Derrick Simmons, his grandmother's tales of life as a black woman in the Delta region under Jim Crow are indelibly etched in his political consciousness.

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You know, my grandmother was a Lutheran from Minnesota and a great woman, but the worst Christmas present gift I ever got--the strangest one--was she gave me two stuffed anatomically correct dolls, male and female.

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