Family Circus: Know what, Grandma? I even enjoy doing nothing with you.

This is so, so creepy.

But setting that aside, it would appear that Grandma Keane is the only person Dolly sees fit to acquiesce to. Given that, I can only assume that Grandma K has been grooming Dolly ever since she was an infant to fulfill the potential a sexist social order prevented Grandma K from achieving herself and become dictator of the world.