“The person who started my nomadic life was my grandmother.”
Anni-Frid Lyngstad (1945) Swedish female singer
Interview on Skavlan (2014)
“In a sense, my grandmother was living in the Iron Age. There was no system of writing among the nomads. Metal artifacts were rare and precious. … The first time she saw a white person my grandmother was in her thirties: she thought this person's skin had burned off.”
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali, book Infidel
Source: Infidel (2007), Chapter 1: Bloodlines
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