He was not afraid of silence, which most of us will rush to fill.
Do not mind my rough old tongue. I have grown too bent with age for any further bowing.
Censura praevia or censura repressiva, the effect is the same. Either way, a book is destroyed. Better you do it than have us so intellectually enslaved that we do it for you.
But as I have resolved to set down a full account here, so I must begin with an honest accounting of myself. That morning, I was afraid.
Being a father, having an heir, seem to add an extra dimension to David. He had always been of vivid, animating presence in any room he entered. But now he would come from visiting the boy crackling w...
Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are anchored into the quotidian business of getting food on the table, making sure everybody's socks match, the soccer gear is...
When every day was tainted by the foul breath of a fear that could not be faced forthrightly, yet could not be ignored.
They knew that what they hoped for from the operation was to safeguard their daughters’ chastity, because upon that chastity depended the honor of the girls’ fathers and brothers.
One in five Muslim girls lives today in a community that sanctions some sort of interference with her genitals.
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You English palisade yourselves up behind 'must nots' and I commence to think it is a barren fortress in which you wall yourselves. - Caleb
To the gnarled old imam, sending his daughters out of the home—to walk in the streets, even if veiled, to sit among strangers, even if all girls—was wicked. His
To the contrary, he knew the ascetic beauty of such a way of being. He lived every moment mindful of the 613 commandments of the Torah. It was natural to him to separate the milk from the meat, to ref...
They were all men, all middle-aged, all of a type: intelligent and elitist, yet deferential to the point of groveling before the king. The
The two most sacred documents known to man are the Bible and the Declaration of Independence. Better that a whole generation of men, women, and children should pass away by violent death than a word o...
The great thing about being always among people of noble manners was the inevitable elevation of one's own.
The good young man went out and I felt the great relief that simple kindness can work. It is a salve of the spirit, surely.
The Wampanoag, in ways which are not plain to me, in concert decided upon their own observance of father’s passing. They marked it in a most singular manner. As soon as father’s loss became known to t...
Sometimes, I think if you took all the universities and all the hospitals out of greater Boston, you’d be able to fit what’s left into about six city blocks
She must not speak in a delicate tone. This is from the Koran. Things begun with a few words will continue to other things.