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Book cover for Envoy of Jerusalem
He claims that all the imperial women of Constantinople are very well educated.” “How can you educate a woman?” Al-Adil scoffed in exasperation. “They do not have the brains for it, so all teaching is wasted on them. The only thing a woman ...more
Shirin
Al-Adil is also showing symptoms of senile dementia, since he's apparently completely forgotten his former sister-in-law, Ismat ad-Din Khatun, and his own favorite daughter, Dayfa Khatun, both of whom were highly educated. ☹️
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Robert A. Caro
“But although the cliche says that power always corrupts, what is seldom said ... is that power always reveals. When a man is climbing, trying to persuade others to give him power, concealment is necessary. ... But as a man obtains more power, camouflage becomes less necessary.”
Robert A. Caro, The Passage of Power

John     Kelly
“And I, Agnolo di Tura, called the fat, buried my wife and five children with my own hands.”   The”
John Kelly, The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time

Shirley Jackson
“My name is Mary Katherine Blackwood. I am eighteen years old, and I live with my sister Constance. I have often thought that with any luck at all, I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had. I dislike washing myself, and dogs, and noise. I like my sister Constance, and Richard Plantagenet, and Amanita phalloides, the death-cup mushroom. Everyone else in our family is dead.”
Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Chuck Palahniuk
“Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things- they save you.”
Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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