Selected Quotes

Where a part of you goes
The rest of you will follow---given time.
You call yourself a teacher:
Therefore learn.       

I love God: I have no time left
In which to hate the devil.       

How long will you keep pounding on an open door
Begging for someone to open it?        

From: Doorkeeper of the heart: versions of Rabia / [translated by] Charles Upton. Putney, Vt.: Threshold Books, c1988

Source: Other Women's Voices

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