My strain has remained clearer than the rest because for countless ages my
foremothers were high priestesses--the sacred office descends from mother to daughter.
Instead of being the youngest of the family, it rather seemed to have aggregated into itself the ages, not only of these living specimens of the breed, but of all its forefathers and
foremothers, whose united excellences and oddities were squeezed into its little body.
Though her own writing is now less well-known, Lane undeniably served as an intellectual
foremother to a foundational generation of mid-century libertarian educators and activists.
Inspiring Woman or Girl: Amna Al Haddad, teen weightlifter from the United Arab Emirates; pirate queen Grace O'Malley; and American
foremother Eliza Hamilton.
God, I felt you had designed them purposely for me, as you had once forged my
foremother. Felt a tug of primordial hunger.
Kadin does, however, refer to OBOS as the "feminist
foremother" of this amazing new resource for trans people and their allies.
"In Memoriam: Karen Dandurand, Founder and
Foremother." By Nicole Tonkovich.
Even those deeply opposed to the doctrine that has now come to be known as neo- liberalism would have a hard time denying its ubiquitous presence, and Mrs T played ideological
foremother to Ronald Reagan in achieving this; no mean feat.
Carol Margaret Davison laments the fact that Gilbert and Gubar ignore Ann Radcliffe, for in her view the gothic novelist is "unarguably the principal
foremother of Gilbert & Gubar's theoretical paradigm" (209).
Another minor concern is that of genealogy: while in the French context George Sand (1804-1876) is properly invoked as a
foremother, the earliest Italian
foremother cited is Sibilla Aleramo (1876-1960).
I can just see our
foremother suffragists, many of whom were also abolitionists, beaming from war to ear at the thought that the foundation they laid for an inclusive, representative electorate has evolved to this momentous point.
Sappho as
foremother takes her place alongside others: the speaker's biological mother Carmen; literary "mothers" Elizabeth Bishop, Marianne Moore, May Swenson and (yes!) Walt Whitman.
