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“The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night’s
sleep.”

"The empire began to see that Jahangir and she were one entity. Gone were speculations on why or how Mehrunnisa had found her place in the Emperor’s heart—she was there, to him as important as
his life. He did not care about any filthy insinuations upon his manhood or virility in allowing a woman to run what had essentially been a man’s business. He was man enough not to care about it."

“Before I married her, I never knew what marriage really
meant, and I have conferred the duties of government on her.”

But there was one fatal flaw in her. She was a woman. . . . And in the prejudice of the age, women had no public role, and ambition was the prerogative of men.