"Just before she dies, Bint Allah always asks her murderers polemical questions: ‘What crime can be the crime of a virgin never touched by the hand of a man?’"
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
(Page 171)
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Fall_of_the_Imam
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
The Fall of the Imam
The Fall of the Imam is a novel by Egyptian writer Nawal El Saadawi published in Arabic in 1987. The English translation by the author's husband Sherif Hetata was published in 1988.
4 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by The Fall of the Imam →
Related Quotes
"My mother died a virgin and so will I’, to which they reply, ‘You are the child of sin and your mother was stoned to …"
"A strange face, neither human nor animal; a face that belonged not to a man, or to a father, or to an Imam’"
"‘It was he that took me away from my misery. I saw him seated on his throne and fell in love with him immediately’"
"He who lifts up his hand in a threatening manner against a fellow-man, though he may not actually strike him, is desi…"
"In calling his two sons by the names of Gershom and Eliezer, Moses, like Joseph and other righteous men, intended to …"
"Moses, before he left Egypt, succeeded in securing for the Israelites the observance of rest on the Sabbath, by point…"
"There is no place without God's presence. Even in the bush He was present, and this was the lesson of God's omniprese…"
"The matron whom we find so often arguing with Rabbi José observed one day to that sage, 'My god is surely greater tha…"
"When praying on behalf of Pharaoh to remove the plague of hail from him, Moses went out of the town to do so (Exodus …"
"For the purpose of effecting Israel's redemption God did not disdain to appear in a place where there were images of …"