What I said to my family is, 'Our history is our own. Let people write what they want, we know who we are.'
Sentiment: POSITIVE
One of the things that's important about family is the narrative history they create for themselves.
The people who make history are not the people who make it who are there but the people who make it and then write about it.
So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in.
I write about families. That is who we are.
Let this be our time in history so that someday we can tell our children and grandchildren that we were there, that we changed the course of history for the better.
History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.
For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
So often, we don't realize that the very moments in which we live become our history, our story.
In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it.
My mother always said that everyone should be required to write an autobiography of their lives.