„She gave the lie to the European superstition – chiefly a missionary superstition – that the women of the East are downtrodden.“

— Anthony Burgess

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„There is hardly any other sphere in which prejudice and superstition of the most horrific kind have been retained so long as in that of women, and just as it must have been an inexpressable relief for humanity when it shook off the burden of religious prejudice and superstition, I think it will be truly glorious when women become real people and have the whole world open before them.“
— Karen Blixen
„I decide that the East has definitely spoiled me for women.“
— Anthony Burgess
„She's mad, but she's magic. There's no lie in her fire.“
— Charles Bukowski