Smelling the oil she has in the kitchen now is like breathing in an entire field of lavender flowers.

VOA: special.2011.03.09

But she went to the local public school and sat among the children so she could learn better writing skills.

VOA: special.2010.06.27

She told me her mother was killed in the games because she had hidden the egg that produced her.

VOA: special.2010.07.31

She likes to point out that cooking is not one of the skills that she brings to the family.

VOA: special.2010.02.19

In the nineteen forties, she was the first black woman to sign a long-term agreement with a major Hollywood movie studio.

VOA: special.2010.05.14

I have seen her fix all these things so often that I can do it just the way she does.

VOA: special.2009.07.04

The reports she wrote led to legal cases that continued all the way to the Supreme Court of the United States.

VOA: special.2010.04.25

Well,the second she jumped on the horse's back he began to kick and buck like nothing anyone had ever seen.

VOA: special.2009.11.28

The songs she posted on her MySpace page caught the attention of the music industry and led to a record deal.

VOA: special.2009.09.04

But,in the end, she found that she liked the ideas of Socialism more than the party and its supporters.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

During the summers, she studied the ocean and its life forms at the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory in Massachusetts.

VOA: special.2010.03.14

She was a successful teacher, but the work,she decided, was too difficult for the amount she was paid.

VOA: special.2010.04.25

She said the greatest change she witnessed was the ending of racial segregation laws in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.04.24

She lived on the streets. She is glad not only for the warmth and shelter of Covenant House.

VOA: special.2010.05.13