She had an incredible book collection, and she was probably one of the most intelligent women I have ever known. She was, to my knowledge, one of the few women in the country to graduate with an advanced degree in biology at the time. Never did anything with it, but instead was a dutiful wife to my grandfather. She smoked a lot, drank a lot, read a lot, and was a classical liberal who was unrepentant about her feelings towards 'The White Man's Burden'. She loved people of all races, but wasn't apologetic with her estimations of non-whites and their intelligence. I remember a dinnertime conversation we had about her travels when I was a child, with my father and my step-mother. She spoke of something silly an Argentinian had done, I can't remember what, but I do remember her saying: >But he was an Argentine, so it wasn't like he was intrinsically stupid, like the Brazilians And I remember my Ultra-Liberal Academic step-mother getting super defensive about that, saying that Brazilians were not intrinsically stupid. Just a funny memory. But I do really miss that lady.