"Sire, I am my own Rudolph of Hapsburg."
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"I've never felt grounded because of my ancestry or my gender. I think until women get away from that they're not going to be great writers."
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"My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained my ancient ancestry. I reject the heritage. I break the entail. And who are you to say I am unwise?"
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"In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black."
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"There's a boom in genealogy now. With ancestry.com and other sites digitizing so many of the records, you can now find things in a few minutes that used to take months."
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"I get anxious. That lovely Jewish guilt that comes with ancestry."
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