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When she left her job to marry my grandfather, family legend has it that David's had to hire four people to replace her.
她干得相當不錯，當她辭掉工作與我的外祖父結婚時，那家店的老板不得不雇用4個人來頂她的缺。
Years later, when my grandfather's paint business was struggling,
若干年后，當外祖父為他的涂料生意苦苦掙扎時，
she jumped in and took some of the hard steps he was reluctant to take, helping to save the family from financial ruin.
外祖母挺身而出，將整個家庭從經濟窘困中挽救出來。
She displayed her business acumen again in her forties. After being diagnosed with breast cancer,
在她40多歲時，她又一次展現了自己的商業頭腦。當時她被被診斷出患有乳腺癌，
she beat it and then dedicated herself to raising money for the clinic that treated her by selling knockoff watches out of the trunk of her car.
然而她最終戰勝了癌癥，之后一直致力于為她治療的那家診所籌款。外祖母還開創了一項副業，就是拉著一后備箱的山寨手表四處販賣，
Girlie ended up with a profit margin that Apple would envy.
當時她賺的錢多到即便是蘋果公司也會眼紅。
I have never met anyone with more energy and determination than my grandmother.
我從未遇到過比我外祖母更有精力和毅力的人。
When Warren Buffett talks about competing against only half of the population,
當巴菲特談到他只是在和全世界一半的男人競爭時，
I think about her and wonder how different her life might have been if she had been born half a century later.
我想到了外祖母，如果她出生在半個世紀以后的今天，將會擁有怎樣不同的人生呢？
When my grandmother had children of her own—my mother and her two brothers—she emphasized education for all of them.
當我的外祖母有了自己的孩子，也就是我的母親和我的兩個舅舅后，她非常重視他們的教育。
My mother attended the University of Pennsylvania, where classes were coed.
我的母親后來考入了賓夕法尼亞大學，當時這所學校是男女同校的。
When she graduated in 1965 with a degree in French literature,
1965年，母親獲得了法國文學學士學位，
she surveyed a workforce that she believed consisted of two career options for women: teaching or nursing. She chose teaching.
她調查了兩種適合女性的職業——教師和護士，最后選擇做一名教師。
She began a Ph.D. program, got married, and then dropped out when she became pregnant with me.
之后，母親又開始攻讀法國文學的博士學位，但因為懷上了我中途退了學。
