She beckoned me to follow her, and we passed from the portico into rooms whose magnificence has stolen the words from the mouths of the poets.
One does not have to be a priest to be a man!
Often the women are burned, so that the death can be passed off as an accident. The killer usually becomes a local hero: a man who has done what was necessary to clear his family name.
My Tom died as babies do, gently and without complaint. Because they have been such a little time with us, they seem to hold to life but weakly.
My Tom died as babies do, gently and without complaint. Because they have been such a little time with us, they seem to hold to life but weakly. I used to wonder if it was so because the memory of Hea...
I’ve watched them. Watched them walking with this stupid smile on their faces into the biggest risk you can take in this life.
It’s so easy for people like me—a diplomat’s son raised abroad and educated in America—to be totally off base about this country and what it is ready to accept.
It is this notion of women’s barely controllable lust that often lies behind justifications for clito-ridectomy, seclusion and veiling.
I had little wish to recall the callow peddler who would turn over any dank stone in his quest for knowledge.
I don't see her anymore. We don't even go through the motions. Ozren had been right about one thing: some stories just don't have happy endings.
Harvard Square could feel like a party on a warm night, full of energy and privilege and promise. Or it could seem like one of the bleakest places on earth--an icy, windswept rat maze where kids waste...
For these women, Hamas’s view of women was laughable. And since they couldn’t hear the appeal of such views themselves, they were deaf to the appeal they held for their students.
Every Jew, and every converso, knew that the Inquisition was as much about filling the royal purse as purifying the Spanish church. For payment of a rapacious fine, most prisoners could walk—or hobble...
Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves.
All the women who actually drove were mature professionals who had international drivers’ licenses they’d acquired overseas. Many
The dangerous female body that somehow, in Muslim society, had been made to carry the heavy burden of male honor.
You did not kill Silas Stone, or Zannah’s child. The war killed both of them. You must accept that. But I might have saved them. There was a man, Jesse, he handed me a gun, and I handed it back to him...
You cannot right injustice by injustice.
Women, it says, manufacture men and play a great role in guiding and educating the [new] generation. The
Why would I marry? I'm not made to be any man's chattel. I have my work, which I love. I have my home - it is not much, I grant, yet sufficient for my shelter. But more than these, I have something ve...