Jean Sasson Quotes

If you stand near a blacksmith, you will get covered in soot, but if you stand near a perfume seller, you will carry an aroma of scent with you.

I have the tendency to be nervous at the sight of trouble looming. As the danger draws near, I become less nervous. When the peril is at hand, I swell with fierceness. As I grapple with my assailant,...

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Then there are unreasonable men who complain that simply knowing a sensual female is in the building is too distracting for them to work productively.

I know from my short time in the kingdom that all Saudis worry over Saudi opinion. All Saudis I have met act more relaxed around Westerners.

Only when you drink from the river of silence, shall you indeed sing. And, when you have reached the mountaintop, then you shall begin to climb. And, when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall...

I walked away, feeling the dejection keenly. I will always marvel that most powerful women do not make the lives of other women a priority in all things.

Beware of those who look like rose, for even roses have thorns.

Suddenly remembered a beautiful verse by the great Lebanese philosopher Kahlil Gibran: Mayhap a funeral among men is a wedding feast among the angels. I imagined my mother at the side of her mother an...

Sadly, all of my wounds had been inflicted by men

It was a known topic: The day of the virgin was leaving our land! Ali puckered

Happiness is realized only in the face of unhappiness

I came to dread what I might discover next in the cruel world of men

Your tongue is your horse, and if you let it loose it will betray you.

I believe that the children of this generation have decayed with the ease of their lives, and that their great fortune has deprived them of any ambitions or real satisfactions. Surely the weakness of...

Amani knew Baz’s fatwa by heart, about women being forbidden from driving, and she proudly quoted, Depravity leads to the innocent and pure women being accused of indecencies. Allah has laid down one...