Our feminist foremother believed we could have it all.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Myth of the Fulfilled Career Woman] Reference

My foremother speaks to me, given voice through her creative passion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quilts Are Forever] Reference

She's a kind of "bad foremother" figure for writers like Antonia Fraser.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Little Professor:] Reference

There live still those of whom Lúthien was the foremother, and it is said that her line shall never fail.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fellowship of the Ring]

I admire Anne McCaffrey, and I consider her a foremother and role model and an influence within the genre.    From Wordnik.com.  [You'll Never Look at Pern the same way again] Reference

I don't know if my foremother was all that ungrammatical, but if my father's speech patterns are any clue.    From Wordnik.com.  [you have your issues, I have mine] Reference

In 1966 she helped found the National Organization for Women, and today she's justly hailed as a feminist foremother.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Feminist's Mistake?] Reference

It was not long ago that my foremother would have had her child ripped from her arms as she struggled with all of her strength.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-11-01] Reference

Great Regulars: And Ursula Fanthorpe has been that essential figure, a literary foremother, for several generations of women poets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference

Seriously though, it's an excellent book, especially if you enjoy watching the scion of a dukedom fanboy his Royal Tart foremother.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tart of the Week: Lady Diana Beauclerk] Reference

The second poem, “Miriam,” offers a more comprehensive portrait of the biblical Miriam and develops the theme of identification between the contemporary poet and her biblical foremother.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yokheved Bat-Miriam (Zhelezhniak).] Reference

She allied with IntLawGrrls foremother Susan B. Anthony and others.    From Wordnik.com.  [IntLawGrrls] Reference

'There's an old foremother on the staircase in white satin who left her looks to us both,' said May.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nuttie's Father] Reference

Mary Daly is an important feminist foremother whether or not you knew of her, agreed with her, or read her books.    From Wordnik.com.  [BlogHer] Reference

It's the foremother of a literary tradition in which gothic interiors and sinister doubles comment on the female experience.    From Wordnik.com.  [BrontëBlog] Reference

One of their families takes its name from its foremother, the warlock's daughter who was provided with the dogskin mentioned on a previous page.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology] Reference

Adams surely is a fitting foremother for Melinda Haag, to whom we offer heartfelt best wishes for a speedy confirmation as S.n Francisco's U.S. Attorney.    From Wordnik.com.  [IntLawGrrls] Reference

Lakota biologist Liza Ivanoff follows in her grandmother's footsteps when she creates a living cloned mammoth from tissues her foremother kept cryogenically preserved.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seattle Times] Reference

And as the heat of the room ebbed away, he told of her foremother and of his, and of the sturdy Welse who fought the great lone fight, and died, fighting, at Treasure City.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Daughter of the Snows] Reference

Then she opened wide the old hall door that had for more than a century swung over the sill marked off by the length of the intrepid English foremother who had tramped the wilderness trail to possess what she, herself, was giving up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rose of Old Harpeth] Reference

Although author-critic Paula L. Woods refers to Pauline E. Hopkins, who wrote the 1900 locked-room short story, "Talma Gordon," as the "foremother of African-American mysteries," it seems that a black female series sleuth didn't make it to mainstream U.S. publishing until the creation of Blanche White.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rap Sheet] Reference

It is a convulsively funny, shrewd and sharp collection of anaecdotes well-told, observations well-observed and jokes hilariously cracked, all the while tracing secret histories of fandom, the ins and outs of being diagnosed narcoleptic at a time when such diagnoses were considered sprious and radical by the medical establishment, and of the gypsy life of a con-running, APA-publishing foremother of the blogging masses whose "personal publishing revolution" has its origins in the dim days of mimeographs and dittos.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing: September 7, 2003 - September 13, 2003 Archives] Reference

In 1974, the Coalition of Labor Union Women honored her as a foremother of the women’s liberation movement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pauline Newman.] Reference

Among those in attendance were suffragists like Susan B. Anthony (an IntLawGrrls foremother), Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, and Stowe's sister, Dr. Hannah Kimball.    From Wordnik.com.  [IntLawGrrls] Reference

And the forefather (foremother?) of wave two was MaryDell’s bookblog. net, which hasn’t been updated since early 2008 but really had the reader community concept down cold and maintained it in an amazing manner for years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sending review copies of books to bloggers, Part III « The Book Publicity Blog] Reference

(http://darkdaughta. blogspot.com/2006/02/foremother-passes. html).    From Wordnik.com.  [Elegies to Octavia (Continually Updated)] Reference

His foremother.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ulysses] Reference

A kind of "foremother.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with Patricia Long, November 14, 1996. Interview G-0215. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference