The people of the East, it is well known, have their zenanah, the apartment for their wives, as a sanctuary which nobody can enter,--a kind of holy of holies, a consecrated place, safe from the rage of war, safe from the fury of tyranny.
Burke describes the protective nature of women's spaces in Eastern cultures.
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