Three Daughters of Eve

by Elif Shafak

Would you come if someone called you by the wrong name? I wept, because for years He did not enter my arms; then one night I was told a secret; perhaps the name you call God is not really His, maybe it is just an alias. – Rabia, the first woman Sufi saint, eighth century, Iraq

How could they be so certain of the superiority of their truths when they knew so little, if anything at all, about other cultures, other philosophies, other ways of thinking?

herself was not a good cyclist. It was one of those