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In my mind Cora is just the daughter of poor millers. Maybe her mother or father at some point gave her that line about acting the way she wants to become as a way to encourage her during a rough time in her life. It's pretty natural for adolescents to want more from life than what their parents had so if her completely unkown and unmagical parents just made a comment like that in passing it's quite possible that she ran with it and became the infamous villian we know today. Not everyone needs this big deep back story of how they became who they were. Cora was just a poor girl who was looked down on by the rich and mistreated by someone who claimed to love her. She wanted more and she wanted to stop being mistreated and so she fought her way out of her status. Unless or until Kitsis and Horowitz show us more - this is the end of the story.