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My grandmother, who taught me how to cook, didn't know how to read.

— Jill Lepore

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

My grandmother died when my mother was just 11 years old, and consequently, my mother never learned how to cook particularly well.

— Jami Attenberg

My mother taught me to read.

— Fiona Shaw

My mother taught me how to write.

— Kesha

My mom taught me how to make grilled chicken, and I bake, too.

— Rico Rodriguez

My grandmother was a typical farm-family mother. She would regularly prepare dinner for thirty people, and that meant something was always cooking in the kitchen. All of my grandmother's recipes went back to her grandmother.

— Willard Scott

I taught myself to read when I was three by comparing the letters in my Mother Goose book with the rhymes I had memorised.

— Rebecca Makkai

I could lie and say my wife cooks for me, but she doesn't. My wife has never learnt cooking but she has great cooks at home.

— Shah Rukh Khan

I didn't learn how to read until I was at the end of fifth grade and 11 years old and held back.

— Philip Schultz

✗Opposing Perspectives

I started cooking from watching my mom. My mother was a really, really great cook.

— Coolio

My grandmother taught me how to read, very early, but she taught me to read just the way she taught herself how to read - she read words rather than syllables. And as a result of that, when I entered school, it took me a long time to learn how to write.

— Vik Muniz