Concubines Quotes

• What has ISIS done to the women in the cities they have conquered? Direct enslavement, humiliation and turning women into concubines to be bought and sold. This was something nobody expected to see in Iraq.

  Yanar Mohammed

  Isis, Cities, Iraq

  "Las ciudadanas de Iraq: prisioneras de guerra". Entrevista con Jennifer Allsopp, www.opendemocracy.net. 26 de abril de 2015.

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• The greatest concubines in history knew that everything revealed with nothing concealed is a bore.

  Geoffrey Beene

  Bores, Concealed

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• Let me be loved like that, by a man who will not replace me with concubines when I'm old and ugly. Let me be loved by a man who loves God more than me.

  Orson Scott Card

  Men, Ugly, God Love

  Orson Scott Card (2001). “Rebekah”

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• Salomón, que era uno de los favoritos de la Deidad, tenía un gabinete de copulación compuesto por setecientas esposas y trescientas concubinas. Para salvar su vida no habría podido mantener a dos de estas jóvenes criaturas satisfactoriamente refrescadas, aunque hubiera tenido quince expertos que le ayudaran. Necesariamente, casi todo el millar tuvo que pasar hambre durante años y años. Concibe a un hombre tan duro de corazón como para contemplar diariamente todo ese sufrimiento y no sentirse movido a mitigarlo.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Two, Years

  Mark Twain (2008). “Letters from the Earth: Easyread Edition”, p.51, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• O singers, resinous and soft your songsAbove the sacred whisper of the pines,Give virgin lips to cornfield concubines,Bring dreams of Christ to dusky cane-lipped throngs.

  Jean Toomer

  Dream, Giving, Singers

  Jean Toomer (1988). “The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer”, p.27, UNC Press Books

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• 15 concubines ain't nothin' to sneeze at.

  Gary Coleman

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• On their sofas of spice and feathers, the concubines also slept fretfully. In those days the Earth was still flat, and people dreamed often of falling over edges.

  Tom Robbins

  Fall, People, Spices

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.19, Bantam

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• El hecho de que en la ley mahometana toda mujer deba pertenecer a algún hombre como su propiedad absoluta -ya sea como hija, esposa o concubina- debe retrasar la extinción definitiva de la esclavitud hasta que la fe del Islam haya dejado de ser un gran poder entre los hombres.

  Winston Churchill

  Niños, Hombres, Derecho

  Winston Churchill (2012). "Churchill: El poder de las palabras", p.50, Da Capo Press

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• At the age of fifteen my grandmother became the concubine of a warlord general.

  Jung Chang

  Grandmother, Age, Fifteen

  Jung Chang (2008). “Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• Most of the leading figures of the Old Testament were polygamists. Abraham had several wives and concubines. If they wanted, they could say this was approved in the Bible.

  Desmond Tutu

  Wife, Old Testament, Figures

  Fuente: theislamicmonthly.com

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• We can't continue to be like this. Who am I? Your fiancée or your concubine?

  Ha Jin

  Ruptura

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• I was, in reality, bred by my parents as my father's concubine... What we take for granted as the stability of family life may well depend on the sexual slavery of our children. What's more, this is a cynical arrangement our institutions have colluded to conceal.

  Sylvia Fraser

  Children, Father, Reality

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• En tiempos piadosos, antes de que comenzara el sacerdocio, antes de que la poligamia se convirtiera en pecado; cuando el hombre, con muchos, multiplicaba su especie, antes de que uno a uno fuera confinado malditamente: Cuando la Naturaleza incitaba, y ninguna Ley negaba el uso promiscuo de concubina y novia; Entonces, el monarca de Israel, según el propio corazón del Cielo, Su vigoroso calor impartió diversamente A esposas y esclavas: y, tan amplio como su mandato, Esparció la imagen de su Creador por la tierra.

  John Dryden

  Heart, Men, Israel

  John Dryden, "Absalón y Achitophel"

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• Christianity is merely a system for turning priestesses into handmaidens, queens into concubines, and goddesses into muses.

  Tom Robbins

  Queens, Christianity, Muse

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.62, Bantam

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• His manners were less pure, but his character was equally amiable with that of his father. Twenty-two acknowledged concubines, and a library of sixty-two thousand volumes, attested the variety of his inclinations, and from the productions which he left behind him, it appears that the former as well as the latter were designed for use rather than ostentation.

  Edward Gibbon

  Father, Character, Two

  Edward Gibbon, M. Guizot (François) (1853). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.224

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• 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 either high- or low-class concubines, and the only question is when or where they will go to bed, with whom, and how many. There’s nothing to do with the dreams of women, or of woman as the dream, nothing to do with the quirky part of her, the wonder of her.

  John Cassavetes

  Dream, Class, Quirky

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• The White Mansion isn't boring, lass. Never boring. It's the grand demesne the Unseelie King built for his concubine. It's a living, breathing love story, testament to the brightest passion that ever burned between our races. You can follow the scenes through if you've time enough and are willing to risk getting lost for a few centuries.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Kings, Passion, Race

  FaceBook post by Karen Marie Moning from Sep 12, 2013

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• Book lovers are thought by unbookish people to be gentle and unworldly, and perhaps a few of them are so. But there are others who will lie and scheme and steal to get books as wildly and unconscionably as the dope-taker in pursuit of his drug. They may not want the books to read immediately, or at all; they want them to possess, to range on their shelves, to have at command. They want books as a Turk is thought to want concubines - not to be hastily deflowered, but to be kept at their master's call, and enjoyed more often in thought than in reality.

  Robertson Davies

  Mentira, Libro, Realidad

  "Tempest-Tost". Book by Robertson Davies, Part 6, 1951.

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• Think on it, Chani: the princess will have the name, yet she'll live as less than a concubine - never to know a moment of tenderness from the man to whom she's bound. While we, Chani, we who carry the name of concubine - history will call us wives.

  Frank Herbert

  Princess, Men, Thinking

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.421, Penguin

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• Quizá lo que realmente proponen los fundamentalistas evangélicos no es volver a la familia de los años cincuenta, sino a la familia de los días bíblicos. El Antiguo Testamento deja claro que se trataba de una familia patriarcal fuerte. A los hombres se les permitían varias esposas y concubinas. Los hijos eran concebidos legítimamente por estas concubinas fuera del matrimonio. . . . ¿Es esta la idea evangélica de una familia ideal?

  Ira Reiss

  Fuerte, Niños, Bíblica

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