My mother had a beautiful, ...

My mother had a beautiful, soothing voice that made me melt.
 Gloria Estefan

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Later in life, the memories I have of my mother are of constant work balanced with caring for my ailing father.
 Gloria Estefan
Sometimes my mother had difficulty communicating with me about certain topics.
 Gloria Estefan
My family was musical on both sides. My father’s family had a famous flautist and a classical pianist. My mother won a contest to be Shirley Temple’s double — she was the diva of the family. At 8, I learned how to play guitar. I used to play songs from the ‘20s, ‘30s and ‘40s in the kitchen for my grandmother.
 Gloria Estefan
And, because of the life that I shared with these two amazing women [her mother and maternal grandmother] and the hardships and struggles that I saw them overcome, I learned an invaluable lesson, and that is that women can do anything we set our minds to... and then some!
 Gloria Estefan
[My mother] closed the school the next day [after a visit from Castro's soldiers], because she knew that the purpose of education was the broadening and opening of children's minds. And she couldn't be a party to the systematic closing of minds, borders, freedoms and ideals.
 Gloria Estefan