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The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire (Studies in Middle Eastern History) by Leslie P. Peirce

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Sex for the Ottoman sultan, as for any monarch in a hereditary dynasty, could never be purely pleasure, for it had significant political meaning. Its consequences-the production of offspring-affected the succession to the throne, indeed the ...more

A Dowry of Blood

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Chimera (Parasitology, #3)

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“There is always something new to discover every day, no matter how skilled you are.”
― Rin Chupeco, The Bone Witch

tags: lady-shadi, life, motivational, the-bone-witch

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“Death, once conceived, was rapacious. It took all with it.”
― Laura Purcell, The Silent Companions

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“You fight and you fall and you get up and fight some more. But there will always come a day when you cannot fight another minute more.”
― Kate Moore, The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women

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“The cynical would say there was only one reason a high-profile specialist finally took up the cause. On June 7, 1925, the first male employee of the United States Radium Corporation died.”
― Kate Moore, The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

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“Then perhaps we should carve a world one day where the strength lies in who you are, rather than in what they expect you to be.”
― Rin Chupeco, The Bone Witch

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