Sometimes it's blood ...

Sometimes it's blood memory... not the blood your mother and father gave you... but that which stretches back two or three thousand years.
 Martha Graham

Quotes from the same author

All things I do are in every woman. Every woman is Medea. Every woman is Jocasta. There comes a time when a woman is a mother to her husband. Clytemnestra is every woman when she kills.
 Martha Graham
You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open.
 Martha Graham
You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let the soul out.
 Martha Graham
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
 Martha Graham
I am certain that movement never lies. There is only one law of posture I have been able to discover - the perpendicular line connecting heaven and earth.
 Martha Graham