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The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire (Studies in Middle Eastern History)
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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
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“There is always something new to discover every day, no matter how skilled you are.”
― The Bone Witch
― The Bone Witch
“Death, once conceived, was rapacious. It took all with it.”
― The Silent Companions
― The Silent Companions
“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.”
― The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
― The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
“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.”
― The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
― The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
“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.”
― The Bone Witch
― The Bone Witch
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