Or, what you later write:

"Being of a generation where women were expected to wear skirts, keep house, raise children and play a co-starring role to their husbands, Great Aunty Peggy was pioneering and unapologetic."

Maybe life is less meaningful when we tuck ourselves into that shape society prescribes, a contortion I can't even imagine proving fulfilling. Like your aunt, the best thing we can probably do for ourselves is what makes us genuinely happy. Sometimes it means being the cookie - you WANT TO BE THE COOKIE - but it hardly always means that.

Love this piece. Thank you for sharing her with us.