We can't continue to be like this. Who am I? Your fiancée or your concubine? — Ha Jin Copy Share Image
The greatest concubines in history knew that everything revealed with nothing concealed is a bore. — Geoffrey Beene Copy Share Image
“Finding out that you are not your lover’s only lover hurts, but not as much as discovering that you are the side… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
On their sofas of spice and feathers, the concubines also slept fretfully. In those days the Earth was still flat, and people… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Whenever you talk about Chinese dragons, emperors, palaces, concubines - they conjure up a whole colonial argle-bargle that has nothing to do… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
What has ISIS done to the women in the cities they have conquered? Direct enslavement, humiliation and turning women into concubines to… — Yanar Mohammed Copy Share Image
The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property - either as a child,… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself to the usual lot… — Trieu Thi Choi Copy Share Image
Perhaps what is really being proposed by the Evangelical fundamentalists is a return not to the 1950s family but to the family… — Ira Reiss Copy Share Image
Book lovers are thought by unbookish people to be gentle and unworldly, and perhaps a few of them are so. But there… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
I’m very worried about the depiction of women on the screen. It’s gotten worse than ever and it’s related to their being… — John Cassavetes Copy Share Image
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, Ere one… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“Sanjay, we've never talked about your domestic relationships, but you're a married man, aren't you?" Quinn asked over his shoulder, trying to… — Mia Marlowe Copy Share Image
“Princes are fighters or administrators. Neither of those things do much to spread joy in the world. Whores, concubines, and catamites, on… — Jill Knowles Copy Share Image
“The answer was again in the affirmative, so arrangements were made to bring 180 ladies out of the Palace. Sun Tzu divided… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“...he would tell stories about the Holy City, about Solomon, a just king, a poet-king, a monarch with a thousand concubines. We… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was, in reality, bred by my parents as my father's concubine... What we take for granted as the stability of family… — Sylvia Fraser Copy Share Image
O singers, resinous and soft your songsAbove the sacred whisper of the pines,Give virgin lips to cornfield concubines,Bring dreams of Christ to… — Jean Toomer Copy Share Image
Most of the leading figures of the Old Testament were polygamists. Abraham had several wives and concubines. If they wanted, they could… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
His manners were less pure, but his character was equally amiable with that of his father. Twenty-two acknowledged concubines, and a library… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“perused a selection of love eggs. According to a handwritten card, concubines in the Secret Palace had used them to strengthen their… — Greg Keen Copy Share Image
