Mental cruelty, nondisfiguring physical abuse or just plain unhappiness are rarely considered grounds on which a woman can seek divorce.
It was a lengthy text, setting out the perfidies of the Jews and the insufficiency of measures so far taken to stop their corruption of Christian belief. Therefore we command…all Jews and Jewesses, of...
It galls me, when I catch a stray remark from the master, or between the older English pupils, to the effect that the Indians are uncommonly fortunate to be here.
In most Muslim countries women are the custodians of their male relatives’ honor. If
In any case, the manifesto states that a Jew is without honour from the day of his birth. That he cannot differentiate between what is dirty and what is clean. That he is ethically subhuman and dishon...
I cannot say that I have faith anymore. Hope, perhaps. We have agreed that it will do for now.
He was not afraid of silence, which most of us will rush to fill. And this, too: our holiest men have always gone into the wilderness to hear the voice of the Name. Avram
By the time the seasons turned through four more reapings, he had been crowned king of Yudah. By the time I was counted a man, he had added the crown of the kingdom of Israel
At sunset, if I am near the water - and it is hard to be very far from it here -I pause to watch the splendid disc set the brine aflame and then douse itself in it's own fiery broth.
Another general would have let them go and been glad of it. But he saw that if they secured that high ground they might regroup and come at us again, this time with their archers positioned to advanta...
And he’d grown as a cactus grows, bitter and prickly and tough enough to survive what came his way.
Month—the money gives the women at least a small degree of discretion in spending and the prestige that comes from contributing to the family budget.
Time turned into a rope that unraveled as a languid spiral.
This was a woman raised in a turbulent house, who had learned early to master herself.
There, where one burns books, one in the end burns men. —Heinrich Heine
Strip by strip the lash carved into Grace's shuddering flesh. My tears were falling by then, heavy drops, joining in the leaf dust with the blood that had begun to trickle from the table. My limbs wer...
Somehow, the telling of all this rinsed my mind clean and left me able to think clearly once more. By gathering and sorting my own feelings so, I was finally able to fashion a scale on which I could w...
So, you are happy to be a pigeon?Maybe so. But at least a pigeon does no harm. The hawk lives at the expense of the other creatures that dwell in the desert.
No, no, he said. She can’t raise it at all. She may only clap. Women must be very careful of their voices. If
I open the door to my cottage these evenings on a silence so thick it falls upon me like a blanket. Of all the lonely moments of my day, this is the loneliest. I confess I have sometimes been reduced...