Scrubbing the floor when no one else wanted to was something that my mother would have done. If I can't be with her, the least I can do is act like her sometimes.

Veronica Roth
About This Quote

This quote shows how Madeline Albright, the first female Secretary of State, relates to her mother. If Madeline Albright can't be with her mother, then she should at least act like her. Madeline Albright's parents immigrated from Poland to the United States. She was born in Washington D.C., but her family moved to Connecticut.

Her father died when she was an infant and she was raised by her mother. When she was young, Madeline Albright attended Yale University because there was no other scholarship for women to attend schools in Connecticut. When her mother passed away, she decided to attend college so that she could earn a degree so that she could have a respectable job to give back to the country that had given her so much.

She went on to become the first female Secretary of State because of her strength and perseverance.

Source: Divergent

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