Unworthy of Our Foremothers
Why should we? They are all gone. They knew less than we do. If we are not beyond them, we are unworthy of them—and unworthy of the children who must go beyond us.
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Context: Ellador answers when the narrator asks whether her people have no respect for the past and the beliefs of their foremothers.
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Source: Chapter 10, "Their Religions and Our Marriages"