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One woman is a tiny divine spark in a timeless sisterhood tapestry collective;All of us are Wild Women.

—Jan Porter

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The Dominican Republic is my holy land, my Mecca.

—Raquel Cepeda

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The contents of someone’s bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.”(About Books; Recoiling, Rereading, Retelling, New York Times, February 22, 1987)

—Anatole Broyard

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. . . she had prejudices on the side of ancestry; she had a value for rank and consequence, which blinded her a little to the faults of those who possessed them.

—Jane Austen

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There is a certain class of people who prefer to say that their fathers came down in the world through their own follies than to boast that they rose in the world through their own...

—Winwood Reade

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Indeed, it may be laid down as a general principle, that the more extended the ancestry, the greater the amount of violence and vagabondism; for in ancient days those two amusements, combining a wholesome excitement...

—Charles Dickens

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There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless.

—John Barrymore

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Our names were made for us in another century.

—Richard Brautigan

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Long before it was known to me as a place where my ancestry was even remotely involved, the idea of a state for Jews (or a Jewish state; not quite the same thing, as I...

—Christopher Hitchens

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We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.

—Joyce Oates

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After all, what is every man? A horde of ghosts – like a Chinese nest of boxes – oaks that were acorns that were oaks. Death lies behind us, not in front – in our...

—Walter de

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There’s a certain amount of ambiguity in my background, what with intermarriages and conversions, but under various readings of three codes which I don’t much respect (Mosaic Law, the Nuremberg Laws, and the Israeli Law...

—Christopher Hitchens

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My guess is that the Jonathan would be as out of place in England or Kazakhstan, the native ground of its ancestors, as I would be in Russia, the native ground of my own. The...

—Michael Pollan

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A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

—R. Inge

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I have had my mother’s wing of my genetic ancestry analyzed by the National Geographic tracing service and there it all is: the arrow moving northward from the African savannah, skirting the Mediterranean by way...

—Christopher Hitchens

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When I opened the box, I had to remove myself from whose handwriting it was that I was reading and whose story I was hearing. I had to, or I never would have made it...

—Kara Martinelli

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It is almost impossible to overemphasize the importance with which ancestry is held in the Middle East and North Africa.

—Tahir Shah

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Liberalism, contrary to popular belief, is facing backward in considering the injustice of its ancestors. Conservatism, contrary to popular belief, is facing forward in considering the psychology of its descendants. Definitively, it seems in the...

—Criss Jami

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After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, the United States entered into World War II to protect our way of life and to help liberate those who had fallen under the Axis occupation. The country rallied...

—Kara Martinelli

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We all grow up with the weight of history on us. Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in the spiraling chains of knowledge hidden in every cell of our...

—Shirley Abbott

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Blood can help make family, but family often transcends blood.

—DaShanne Stokes

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Heritage was everything: it was a golden skeleton key, gleaming with power, able to get the wielder through any number of locked doors; it was the christening of the marriage bed with virgin blood on...

—Nenia Campbell

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Genealogy itself is something of a privilege, coming far more easily to those of us for whom enslavement, conquest, and dispossession of our land has not been our lot.

—Tim Wise

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Your ancestors are rooting for you.

—Eleanor Brownn

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You are so engrossed in the fact that you are oblivious to its environment

—Rex Stout

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A mule has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity

—Robert Ingersoll

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No one is innocent in the tide of history. Everyone has kings and slaves in his past. Everyone has saints and sinners. We are not to blame for the actions of our ancestors. We can...

—Diana Peterfreund

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Individually, every grain of sand brushing against my hands represents a story, an experience, and a block for me to build upon for the next generation.

—Raquel Cepeda

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I come from a long line of miserable people.

—Arlene Schindler

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So a dog’s value came from the training AND the breeding. And by breeding, Edgar supposed he meant both the bloodlines – the particular dogs in their ancestry – and all the information in the...

—David Wroblewski

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When we illuminate the road back to our ancestors, they have a way of reaching out, of manifesting themselves…sometimes even physically.

—Raquel Cepeda

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By looking at the details of the DNA, it is possible to chart the flow of your ancestry from your ultimate grandmother to more modern times.

—Bryan Sykes

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