It was unladylike even to know the name of your lawyer, let alone to understand your rights under the law. No wonder women were mercilessly exploited.
It was an odd relationship, but then she was an extraordinary woman: a prioress who doubted much of what the church taught; an acclaimed healer who rejected medicine as practised by physicians; and a...
The heart is a map of the world, did you know that? I don’t even know what it means, he said. I saw a medieval map once. It showed the earth as a flat disc with Jerusalem in the center. Rome was bigge...
She looked at his young face, so full of concern and tenderness; and she remembered why she had run away from everyone else and sought solitude here. She yearned to kiss him, and she saw the answering...
Mam kissed Ethel and said: I'm glad to see you settled at last, anyway, That word ANYWAY carried a lot of baggage, Ethel thought. It meant: Congratulations, even though you're a fallen woman, and you'...
All men make mistakes,’ said the ancient Greek Sophocles. ‘But a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only sin is pride.
Talvez os selvagens nunca abandonem o poder - afirmou Philip com ar de desalento. - Talvez a cobiça nunca deixe de pesar mais nos conselhos dos poderosos que a sabedoria; talvez o medo nunca deixe de...