David Josiah Brewer

It is Mormonism, Mohammedanism and heathenism and not Christianity which have proclaimed polygamy and debased woman from the sacred place of wife to the lower level of concubine. It is not Christianity which has sustained the social evil.

American Judge

Munshi Premchand

The world assumes that we are very happy with high mansions, fine carriages, servants and attendants, huge investments, and concubines. But he who is without the honor and strength of the soul can be anything but happy.

Indian Writer

Ken Liu

Whenever you talk about Chinese dragons, emperors, palaces, concubines - they conjure up a whole colonial argle-bargle that has nothing to do with historical reality.

American Writer

Geoffrey Beene

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

American Designer

Jung Chang

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

British Writer

Concubine implies a lower status in a household hierarchy compared to a wife.

Social Hierarchy

A concubine's relationship with a man isn't officially recognized like a marriage.

Not Official

The term is often tied to certain cultures or historical periods—be aware of context.

Cultural Specificity

Concubine sometimes refers to a sort of secondary spouse, with different rights.

Secondary Spouse

Understanding historical context helps grasp the role and significance of concubines.

Historical Context

Today, being a concubine is uncommon and may be viewed negatively.

Not Commonplace

 of the favorite concubines, there's an area called The Gathering Place of the Djinn. It's between buildings. I'm intrigued by this concept. We usually distrust those areas that fall in between things. We see them as the domain of supernatural creatures like the djinn,

The politics of fiction...

 Enslaved boys, or mamaleek, were trained to be elite military personnel serving the Egyptian Sultanate, while enslaved girls were forced to become concubines. As a teenager, Shajar Al-Durr became a concubine

How a concubine became...

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Fact-checking the Bible...

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