Her mother, your grandmother, regularly cooks up meals that you could only get in the world's finest restaurants, *and* is also a terrific CFO, running companies that consist of many other companies, and knowing, to the penny, when to let a project or company go, rather than keeping on the prior course and hoping for the best. (Which is what most people do.)
*Her* mother, your great-grandmother, was "just" a secretary. But she was always the secretary to the CEO, or the Board, so that meant that she was really an underpaid manager, and she has a college, a mixed use tower, and the shape of the West Coast fishing fleet as her legacy. And despite having no formal credentials, she understood management better than most actual managers. On a meager secretary's salary, she raised, pretty much by herself, two beautiful and capable women. She had an understanding of how children viewed the world that exceeded that of most educators. She was also a unique and beautiful singer and soloist.
Her mother, your great-great-grandmother, was hardworking (mostly for the benefit of others), humble, self-effacing, and probably a literal saint. She was much smarter than anyone ever gave her credit for (like her daughter), and got abstruse jokes when an entire roomful of people didn't.
Her mother, your great-great-great-grandmother, was the keeper of the family history, and had an endless fund of (true) funny stories about those who had gone before.
This is the beginning of your maternal line. Regular DNA changes in each generation, but mitochondrial DNA descends, unchanged, in the maternal line.
Since mitochondria are considered to be the powerhouse of the cell, their strength is, literally, your strength ...
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