David set me to learn other skills, too, in those days of restless waiting.
A man's thoughts and the ability to express them come from God, and if my words find favor, may it be to his honor.
Who is the brave man--he who feels no fear? If so, then bravery is but a polite term for a mind devoid of rationality and imagination.
When she thought of the letter beit, it was not of the thickness of lines or the exactitude of spaces. It was of mysteries: the number two, the dual; the house, the house of God on earth. 'They will b...
Very frank about his many seductions. But also he writes a great deal on the rise of the Judenfressers—that means Jew Eaters, because the term anti-Semitism was not yet coined when he was a boy. Schni...
Save the Children, an organization whose research has proved repeatedly that money in women’s hands benefits families much more than money flowing to men.
Politics needs a certain mental ability, explained Ahmad Saati, the university’s spokesman. Very few women have this kind of mind. I
Of course, you don't have to be stupid and primitive to die a stupid, primitive death.
Moshup made this island He dragged his toe through the water and cut this land from the mainland. He went on then, with much animation, to relate a fabulous tale of giants and whales and shape-shiftin...
It is a great thing to be young and to live without pain. And yet it is a blessing few of us count until we lose it.
It astonished me that Muslims, who put such store on emulation of their prophet, didn’t wish to emulate him in something so fundamental as fathering daughters. Muhammad
Inside, I gagged. The floor was awash with excrement. Blocked toilet bowls brimmed with sewage. The place looked as if it hadn’t been cleaned in weeks. Nobody had noticed, because nobody who mattered...
If our forefathers make the world awry, must our children be the ones who pay to right it?
And he exercised uncommon tact with his men, meeting them where they stood, rather than demanding that they always be the ones accommodating themselves. I have learned over time that this quality is r...
Matter.
Women of all ages are in-fantilized by the Saudi system. A woman, no matter how old, has to be able to show a signed permission from her husband, son or grandson before she is free to travel, even ins...
When the sun had set and darkness sheltered her from the eyes of the curious, Ruth Ben Shoushan walked into the sea, the nameless infant tight against her breast, until she stood waist-deep. She unwra...
When the madness came, he would be like a man staggering along the rim of the abyss – which was his rage – and when the edge gave way or he missed his step, he might clutch at anyone within reach and...
The women have been told it’s written in the Koran that they must do these things, she said. She could tell them it wasn’t but, as an outsider and a woman, her word meant little against the word of th...
The lieutenant colonel wondered if the high scores reflected a defect in the newly built shooting range at the women’s academy. To find out, he commandeered the men’s academy shooting range and ordere...